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		<title>Can you fix it?</title>
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As a parent, it&#8217;s hard to resist the urge to fix all your kid&#8217;s rough spots. You want to go head to Reebok with the doofus kid who picks on your kid at the playground. You want to take that obliterated RC helicopter and make it fly again. You want to find the beloved Swiss army knife that got dropped in the woods.
There are some things you can fix. As Mister Steel knows, I&#8217;m fairly handy with the butter knife. Give me a jammed BB gun, or a broken light saber and I&#8217;ll grab a butter knife and finangle it to functional again. Oh, the things I&#8217;ve fixed with just a butter knife. But that&#8217;s another post for another time.
I was thinking the other day&#8230;at what point do you have to hold yourself back? Tough love advocates would say, &#8220;Often&#8221; or even &#8220;Always.&#8221; That&#8217;s how kids learn &#8212; hard knocks. ...]]></description>
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