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Raising Resilient Kids with Angela Duckworth

A Bit of Optimism

CHAPTER

The Blessings of a Skin Knee

When i was a young mam, i read this book that i loved. A former rabbi named wendy mogul wrote about the blessings of a skin knee. She said if your kid is of a certain age and cannot make their own toast, you should run,. not walk, to the kitchen to show them, like you knw they have to be independent. And look, i'm not saying that the standards don't change from generation to generation. I remember my little baby cousin, james, who's now an adult, would fall over, he would clearly have scraped his knee, and he would look at me before he reacted. If i went, are you ok?

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