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Parent Trap

Parents must be careful about the way they handle the instinct to shelter their children from criticism, from—in your face, no way of denying it—failure, and from being confronted by the successes of friends and siblings. Yes, it’s cruel and cheap to cultivate a...

Patience or Lies?

When you’re being patient with someone who’s wandering down into some messy and immature hole it’s easy to get mixed up about whether you’re showing grace or actually just patronising their fears and failures. In other words, not doing the very...