#1 (That’s you!) 1. You listen. When your child comes to you with a problem or an idea, you stop what you are doing, look at your child and focus so you can really hear what it is they are trying to tell you. Even if your child is not quite conversant, you are the one they come to because they know you will hear what it is they have to share. And that to you, it and they are important. 2. You look out for them. You have found the best preschool, after vetting all other

"It’s so true how we’re always looking for infallible women heroes and how we’re so afraid when they are afraid and so despondent when the poison in the air affects them, too. How when we discover again and again that there’s really no ONE to follow—there’s no Oz behind the curtain—we feel so suddenly scared and alone and directionless. All of this is why it’s a saner policy to love people than to admire them. Admiration involves putting a person on a pedestal and since peopl