SIMSBURY, Conn. One day, when Sara Hendershot was 7 or 8, her mother, Marion, was driving Sara and her soccer teammates home from practice. Marion remembered listening, a bit amused, as Sara proceeded to tell each teammate what she could do to be a better player. The girls listened politely, without comment. When they were alone, Marion had a little talk with her daughter. "That was really nice that you're trying to help your friends," Marion recalled saying. "But that's not really your job. The people to help them are their mom and dad or the soccer coach." But, Sara protested, I could see what they were doing wrong. If I told them, they could fix it. "I remember thinking, 'We have to nip...
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