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How to Stop Striving for Straight A’s: Acceptance, Achievement, and Approval

By Margaret Kemp Acceptance by the world isn’t automatic. You have to earn it, and—spoiler alert—the world grades on a curve. I was five years old when I came face-to-face with this unpleasant reality. I’d just started school, and a classmate invited me to her birthday party.  I stared wide-eyed as my classmate opened each […]

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