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Why 15 minutes is the magic number

April 22, 2026

We used to do homework after dinner. Forty-five minutes at the kitchen table, my son increasingly distressed, me increasingly exasperated. He was eight years old and already telling me he was stupid. I stopped doing it that way about eighteen...

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What to do when you lose it too

April 22, 2026

It was a Tuesday. He had been home for forty minutes and we were already in a full standoff over whether he had to do his homework before dinner. I said something I immediately regretted. He cried. I shut myself...

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