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Nurturing Your Child's Creativity
In an age where preschool admission is competitive and eighth graders worry about padding their college resumes, creativity tends to get short shrift. Teachers focus on drilling, students are busy memorizing, and parents assume creativity is all about art and story-telling – nice, but not as ...
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