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The instinct to fix things for our kids is all too human. Parents are hardwired to do our best to clear any roadblocks from their path.

This impulse served humans well for millennia when such roadblocks were much more likely to be a matter of life or death. But fast-forward to today, an age of relative safety and comfort for many, and this instinct may no longer be serving us.