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  • Don’t Let Summer Be a Bummer!

    Don’t Let Summer Be a Bummer!0

    Summer is a good time to stop worrying so much about safety and just let kids be kids for once.

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  • Don’t Just Read TO Your Kids; Read WITH Them

    Don’t Just Read TO Your Kids; Read WITH Them0

    Reading to your children will have immeasurable benefits for their academic success. We hear this over and over again in the education world. So why don’t more parents do it? Statistically, only about one-third of parents read to their children at night—and that number is probably generous. There will, of course, always be those parents who

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  • Don’t Have a ‘Merry Little Christmas’

    Don’t Have a ‘Merry Little Christmas’0

    I was sitting in my local coffee shop when “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” began playing over the café’s speaker. Perhaps because this Christmas is so fraught with fear and uncertainty, this song caught my attention. I pushed aside my other thoughts and gave my full attention to the music, hunting down the lyrics

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  • Don’t Gaslight Us on #BelieveWomen

    Don’t Gaslight Us on #BelieveWomen0

    Many of us were startled to open The New York Times last week and find ourselves accused of hijacking and weaponizing the phrase “believe all women.” According to journalist Susan Faludi, the phrase always has been “believe women,” and never has been associated with a demand for automatic and unquestioned belief that those who allege

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  • Don’t Forget to Sing

    Don’t Forget to Sing0

    I have a postcard on my office door with a Samuel Beckett quote I like on it. It reads, in my sanitized English translation, “When you are in it up to your neck, the only thing left to do is sing.” Even on relatively bad days, I am very, very far from being in it

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  • Don’t Find Yourself, Overcome Yourself

    Don’t Find Yourself, Overcome Yourself0

    Selves are not found; they are created. That’s the perennially valid message of some ancient Chinese philosophers, according to the book The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life, by Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh, a journalist with a PhD in East Asian history who studied under Puett. Puett, a Professor

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