Jessica Lahey
CommentatorJessica Lahey is a teacher, speaker, and author of The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed. She writes the bi-weekly column The Parent-Teacher Conference at The New York Times and is a contributing writer at the Atlantic. You can find out more about her work at www.jessicalahey.com.
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New Hampshire is known for many things, but high fashion is generally not one of them. When I head out to the post office or to pick my son up at school,鈥� -
The phone doesn鈥檛 usually ring before six o鈥檆lock in the morning, so I knew before I answered it that my grandmother had died. She was in her nineties,鈥�
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We moved to the woods in search of a home, a place where our sons have space for solitude. I wanted them to know the sudden upwelling of frigid spring鈥� -
The trails around my home are so familiar to me that I avoid roots, adjust to slopes, and leap over fallen trees without breaking stride. I know the鈥� -
A teacher鈥檚 year is quantified by the same measures as a layman鈥檚 year; it divides up by the same three hundred and sixty five - give or take a leap -鈥�
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Teacher鈥檚 lives are cyclic; fall is for new beginnings, winter is for maintaining momentum, and spring is for closure.And summer. Ah, summer. This season鈥�
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Three years ago, when he was eleven, my son Ben set down a very specific parental code of conduct we鈥檇 be expected to follow at summer camp drop-off. We鈥�
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In late April, some students at Crossroads Academy noticed a Mallard duck hanging out on the perimeter of our playground. She was oddly persistent, pacing鈥� -
The day before my first date with the Robie Farm dairy herd, Lee Robie gave me some last words of wisdom. 鈥淒on鈥檛 wear your best underwear,鈥� he said.Thus鈥�
