What Are You Going to Do About It?

Invaluable advice from my parents

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I was 5 when I first encountered a major life lesson. I’d just transferred to a new school. Because of overcrowding, the school had rented two meeting rooms from the church next door, to use as classrooms.

At the first parent-teacher conference, my father was outraged. The rooms were in the basement, on the far side of the…