As Klara ran around the park with a gaggle of happy gigglers, I ruffled through the offerings in a Little Wooden Library and found a parenting book from the nineties. There’s a sentence at the very beginning that I loved:
As significant as it may be for children to believe that “I’m a great kid,” it’s even more crucial for them to believe that “it’s a great world.”
Of course, you can’t teach a child something you don’t believe, so step one is to realize that “I’m great and the world around me is wonderful.”