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Teenage girls navigate a tough landscape. There are tools the church can offer them.

Caregiving is a form of love rooted in relationship, not a form of work. So argues Alison Gopnik, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and is known for her research on the psychology of children. Drawing upon neuroscience, philosophy, and social psychology, Gopnik shows how “the parenting model” (aimed at producing a particular type of child, as a carpenter produces a chair) often fails to engage the plastic minds of young children.

Stranger Things reassures us that the stories of the past can give us the courage to face whatever danger looms.