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Stop Apologizing For Your Kid's Personality

Cavan Images/Cavan/Getty ImagesA good parent is one who builds their kid up, who makes them feel confident, who loves them deeply for who they are.But even good parents who do all of those things find themselves in the middle of a summer barbecue, apologizing to neighbors they don’t know very well, because their loud, energetic, life-of-the-party 7-year-old keeps taking over the karaoke machine and belting Hamilton tunes to the adults. “I’m so sorry,” they say. “She’s such a ham.” When their kid keeps an adult stuck for more than five minutes, listening to them describe the latest Pokemon card...