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How to Get More Grit in Your Life

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I'm Not Going to Make My Kids Do It

Srinath Mahankali is a 12-year-old spelling champ. His mother, Bhavani, remembers when her older son Arvind caught the spelling bug. "I have a passion for words because I just don't really understand why they put it together in this sort of way," he says.

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