We are born into a family for a reason: growth. Most of us don’t have parents who share the same personalities and preferences as we do. We need to learn how to get along with our family members. This learning process not only helps us grow, it helps our parents grow, too. Once an ex-colleague asked me, “How can I teach my daughter mathematics? I get so impatient when she doesn’t understand simple additions and subtractions.” This ex-colleague fails to see that perhaps it’s not about teaching her daughter mathematics. It’s about learning to be more patient with her daughter. Like in my case, I
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