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Building Boys Bulletin 10-25-20

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Helping your son feel "good enough"

Jennifer L.W. Fink
Oct 26, 2020
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I struggle with perfectionism.

Always have, probably always will.

For a whole lot of reasons, I grew up surrounded by the message that who I was — smart, curious, creative — was not desirable or OK. I lived in a place and time when pretty, popular and athletic were valued, and I was raised by parents who also probably never heard from their parents that …

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