Children learn to be alone through love, not distance
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There is something that makes adults uneasy about a child playing alone. A kid absorbed in something private at a playground edge, a bedroom door closed for an afternoon. These scenes have a way of triggering concern. Are they OK? Do they need something? Should someone go and join in? This discomfort runs through a lot of modern parenting culture. Unstructured time has quietly become something to be rescued from. There are classes for every interest, enrichme
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