“I Keep Me Safe.” Risk and Resilience in Children with Messy Lives

@article{Wright2013IKM,
  title={“I Keep Me Safe.” Risk and Resilience in Children with Messy Lives},
  author={Travis D. Wright},
  journal={Phi Delta Kappan Magazine},
  year={2013},
  volume={95},
  pages={39 - 43}
}
Educators can recognize that behaviors that are considered problems at school may have developed because they keep students safe in the terrifying parts of their lives. 
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