It happens every year around this time. The clocks have fallen back, it’s dark by the time we pull out of the driveway, and somebody in my house suddenly “forgets” where his dobok is. The Connecticut cold settles in, the holidays start crowding the calendar, and the boy who couldn’t wait for class in September
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My 10-year-old cried in the car after practice once. Not because he got hurt. Not because another student said something unkind. He cried because he couldn’t get a combination right — and he’d been working on it for weeks. I turned down the radio, let him feel it for a minute, and then said, “That
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