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I accepted an invitation to give a talk in Michigan on a Tuesday in April, though the date rang some distant bell. A day or two later, I recognized the bell: that Tuesday was my son's ninth birthday. I called to reschedule the talk, citing the proverbial family complications — not specifying that the real complication was my own spaced-out incompetence. The incident left me feeling like a crummy mother, a rotten visiting lecturer, and a bad person — an apologetic trifecta of self-criticism. I would not be confessing this incident now had a friend not mentioned recently that she . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Klass is associate professor of pediatrics at Boston University Medical Center, Boston, and medical director of the Reach Out and Read National Center, Somerville, Mass.

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