What Florida Taught Me About Parenting

For years I watched a honeysuckle bush grow wild. Then, one day, it was gone.

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“Hey, daddy! Look! There’s a turtle sitting by our front door,” one of my children announced excitedly on a hot afternoon in May.

Florida is wild. You can hardly set foot outside your front door without stepping on something squirmy or…