Instead of celebrating what makes each child unique, most parents push their children to "fit in" so that … - Tom Rath

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No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.

Tom Rath

Instead of celebrating what makes each child unique, most parents push their children to "fit in" so that they don't "stick out. " This unwittingly stomps out individuality and encourages conformity, despite these parents' good intentions

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