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Self-reliance in children

  • The gift of failure : how the best parents learn to let go so their children can succeed
    Author:
    Lahey, Jessica
    Summary:

    Teachers and coaches have long been aware of the detrimental effects overprotective parents have on children, but lately there has been a whole new level of overprotectiveness. Students need room to roll with the punches, find their way...
  • Save Rafe
    Author:
    Patterson, James, Tebbetts, Chris
    Summary:

    After a rough summer, Rafe has just learned that he's going to be held back a year unless he can prove himself on an outdoor survival excursion--complete with dangerous white-water rafting, dizzying rock climbing, and fanatical...
  • Bat summer
    Author:
    Withrow, Sarah
    Summary:

    Terence isn't cool like his best friend, Tom, but at least he's not a weirdo like Lucy, who sees life upside-down and thinks she's a bat. Yet Lucy knows things that other people don't -- about the gaps in life, and seeing things more...
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