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“I hate math!” “I can’t read out loud — only in my head.” “Do I have to do it?” These are the kind of questions I navigate daily from my third grader, Logan. After school, his younger brother Liam is always immediately ready to dive into his first-grade homework with me, while Logan will whine and complain and find any excuse in the book to try to get out of it. (“I can’t find a pencil.” “My head hurts.” “I have to go to the bathroom.” And on and on and on.) Have I been tempted to let him skip the work to avoid a fight? Yes. Have I fought him tooth and nail to get him to sit down and just get it over with? Also, yes. By the time he actually sits down to

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