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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.

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

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