How can we recognize truly great teachers and how can we learn, as parents, from some of their best strategies?
Every function in the child’s cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people and then inside the child. – Lev Vygotsky, 1978 What did Nelson Mandela’s Mom do right? How about Mother Theresa’s Mom? I have wondered how the parents of indisputably admirable people who …