Please don’t sugarcoat history

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The desire a parent feels to protect their child is instinctive, consuming, and, sometimes, misguided.

We are authors and mothers. Between our two families we have four children, boys and girls. Like most parents, we wish our children might grow up in a perfect world, one where they would never hurt themselves or others, never feel sad or angry, or know the pain of being lonely or alone, and never fail at anything they want to succeed at. And, okay, ...