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“Our children live simultaneously in two worlds: the physical world of school, home, and what adults call ‘real life,’ and the digital world, which, to young people, is equally if not more ‘real.’”
—attorney, TV host, and mother Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) in "Swagger" (Vantage Point Books, 2012), her wake-up call to parents packed with useful and tough-to-hear research about “raising boys in an era of failing schools, mass joblessness, and thug culture”; learn more at lisabloom.com.
We can’t shield our children from the heartache and disappointment and tragedy that life inevitably brings. They’re going to get hurt, regardless. But if we can teach them how to be resilient—how to pick themselves back up, to carry on, no matter the force of the blow—they’ll always be protected. If they know how to bounce back, then we’ve done our job.
—award-winning NY blogger Michelle Horton on earlymama.com, where she writes “for anyone who became a parent earlier than they expected”; she also writes daily at Babble and Disney Baby.