No Idea What I'm Doing by Clint Edwards

No Idea What I'm Doing by Clint Edwards

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Learning About Obligations

Learning About Obligations

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Clint Edwards
Nov 03, 2018
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Last Friday my 11yo didn’t make a diorama of the Sahara Desert, a project that was assigned weeks earlier, and was now failing science. As parents we tried a new thing this year by not micromanaging his academics. But as I discussed his failing grade, it felt like we simply gave him enough rope to hang himself.

I didn’t know what to do, or how to feel. Y…

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