31. How could these children possibly do undergraduate experiments at the age of thirteen? 32. Allowing children to do things helps them gain confidence, she said. 33. And if a child does, early treat helps considerably. 34. And most of your family is more interested in the results of the football games than in how the children are doing in school. 35. And every so often, Kwajewski turns on music and the children do the chicken dance, flapping their arms like barnyard dancers at a wedding. 36. And she rolls her eyes constantly, the way slightly brain-damaged children do, but also the way those repellent caricatures of pickaninnies used to. 37. And the children are doing better. 38. And they must learn things the rest of us might assume children do naturally. 39. And so did their children. |