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Want to Raise More Resilient, Emotionally Healthy Kids? Science Says Always Respond to Their Pain or Illness Like This

As Inc. colleague Bill Murphy Jr. writes, there comes a time in some people's lives when their aspirations for their children begin to rival or even exceed their aspirations for themselves. Plus, if you have or plan to have kids, one of the best ways to feel your work-life balance is healthy is to feel you're succeeding as a parent: that you're helping your children grow up to be happy, fulfilled, independent, and successful.

I was riding horses with my grandfather when I was 12. My saddle slipped (I hadn't cinched it tightly enough), I slid sideways and under, and the horse stepped on my back as he ran away. My grandfather rode back, leaned his forearms on the pommel, and looked down at me while I gasped for breath. "The longer you lie there," he said, "the longer it's going to take to catch your horse."


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