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Scenario

Why Children Can Benefit From Things They Initially Resist

I made my kids study Mandarin every Saturday for ten years and now my daughter uses it to talk to her grandmother but she told me she resented every minute of those classes.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between short-term resistance and long-term benefit creates moral complexity in how we guide those we love.

Your guide for this
Rabia
Rabia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Worth thinking about

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Peri

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