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Feb 17
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Teaching Kids to Trust their Guts

Peoples Media, This Is So Awkward
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Gut instinct is only partially innate – it’s also very much learned and developed over time. And it turns out to be a fundamental safety skill kids need to master. To do this, we need to shed the “stranger danger” approach of the 1980s, replacing it with the concept of “tricky people,” because it turns out that those who harm kids are often not strangers to ... Show More
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