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Kids Are Er, They're Adolescent Learning Machines

When we over protect our children, denying them the opportunity to practise their own skills, learn to make wise and foolish choices. We believe we're treatng with love, but we also may be limiting their scope to become fully human. I so, as you know, the person who was raised by two indian parents, were not over protective, but they definitely had their boundaries in terms of what we could do and get away with. For example, my mother refused to buy me a scapeboard as a kid because she said that kids who scapeboard break bones. And now i'm an avid surfer and snow border, and i got a scape board. A but it

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