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You have a group of 19-36 students at home, and the skills to teach positive group dynamics? Lucky you. "That's not the school's job" -- so no one does it. Emp

• hugh4 11y ago
  Most people outside New York have multiple children by the time their oldest goes to school, so there's opportunities to learn these things at home by playing with your siblings. I'm guessing that only children are a lot more common in NYC than elsewhere, though, thanks to the impossibility of affording the kind of living space that people elsewhere take for granted. Perhaps the bitchiness of the kids is attributable to the high prevalence of spoiled only children?
• cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
  >You have a group of 19-36 students at home, and the skills to teach positive group dynamics? No, but I had friends and social interaction when I was a child, and this social interaction also taught me empathy. It helped to have good, empathetic role models at home too.