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                                          The


                                          Insatiable



                                          Child




                                                                By Rifka Schonfeld, Director of S.O.S.
                                                                    (Strategies For Optimum Success)
            “It is not what you do for your children, but what
          you have taught them to do for themselves that will
          make them successful.” – Ann Landers

          Nine-year old David was just awarded with a vaca-
                                                      center of quarrels between students. “He seems to

                                                      of it,” wrote his fourth grade English teacher in an
                                                  -   end-of-the-year assessment.
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          cause David had already won those.          dreaming, staring out the window or focusing on ir-
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                                                  -   irrelevant comments and silly jokes,  and disturbed
          ther looked at his mother and said in bewilderment,   his classmates in a variety of ways.
          “When I was a boy, I felt lucky to have a shirt on my
          back and shoes without holes. What are we running
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          ferent.  Would you  rather  he  run  around with  that

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          bounds that seemed far beyond the norm. Although   him to get a handle on them.
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