Helping Children Realize Their Best Selves: Given the pandemic pitfalls, the time for change is now!

Dear Readers:

Can we admit the pandemic sucked big-time? Families and educators had to endure social and political madness with children in tow. Pandemic learning loss can deepen because young minds cannot access high-level content without self-confidence or self-control.

My two most enriching expectations are contradictory. I teach children to speak ("You are a voice in this world who deserves to be heard!"). I also teach silence ("Be quiet! Control yourself!"). Children must learn how to a...