My role in patients’ behavior is smaller than I thought
My mother is a very smart woman. I see it in the way she solves problems, creates complex crafts, and navigates hard conversations. She can’t, however, add fractions. She was never very good at math, she says.
“I was never very good at math” is a dirty phrase that garners much attention in my household. My husband, a sixth-grade math intervention teacher, spends just over 170 days each year attempting to …