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Sometimes the Magic Works: Reflections on Sports and Parents
Sports and parents. It can be a dicey situation. In a guest editorial, author Kate Mayer Mangan discusses how parents can support their kids.
What to Say to Someone Who Doesn’t Care About Nature: The Difficult and Powerful Words that Might Matter
I tried making arguments about the ecological value of the waters. I tried pointing out that, as we keep finding out the hard way, everything is far more connected than we realize: DDT decimates songbirds, pollution in one place affects the climate in another. We can’t predict the ways that drilling in or paving over a place may harm other ecosystems or humans.
Nothing either one of us said was changing the other’s mind. We were growing angrier and more distant. After the conversation, and afte