she is not her school avoidance
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she is not her school avoidance

Somewhere in the middle of all of this — the appointments, the school meetings, the forms and the phone calls (the endless phone calls!) — it is possible to lose sight of something important. Your daughter is not her school avoidance. She is a specific, particular, unrepeatable marvel of a person who is somewhere in the middle of becoming whoever she is going to be.

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if you're in the middle of it — the slow mornings, the sunday evenings, the conversations with the school that don't go the way you needed them to —

this is for you.

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