Don’t try to teach your children lessons all the time. That only leads to feeling frantic and worried. Children learn best from modeling, and in those precious moments when they feel connected to their parents, which happens during “just being” time.

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Slam poet and Youth on Record teacher Suzy Q. Smith teaches a poetry class at Lincoln Respect Academy, a program for at risk students operated inside Lincoln High, a public high school in Denver on Feb. 10.