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How will your kid write history today?If history teaches us anything it's that the difference between living an ordinary life and an extraordinary one is a matter of choice. When 13-year-old Joan of Arc received visions of angels in her garden, she could have ignored them and heeded more grounded voices that told her to mind her station; or, she could dedicate her short life to liberating her homeland and turning the tide of the 100 Years War. Bicycle mechanics Orville and Wilbur Wright could have steered clear of flights of fancy by focusing all their energies on their repair shop; or, they could dare to dream that the mechanical lessons learned from stabilizing a bicycle on the ground were precisely the insights necessary to stabilize a motorized craft in the air.Those examples may sound like the stuff of fiction, but we all know they were the stuff of dreams their dreamers refused to abandon. All kids dream big ideas and imagine fanciful futures, bu

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