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How to build healthy patriotism in children

I want to teach my kids to be proud of where they come from but every bedtime story about American heroes turns out to have a dark side I don't know how to explain to a six-year-old.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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He's seeking ways to instill appropriate pride without creating the kind of blind nationalism that prevents moral growth.

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