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Grow Slow

Some parents, fed up with competitive child-rearing, are looking to alternative strategies to produce balanced human beings at a gradual pace. By Vicky Allan

MOST of us are familiar with the slow-food movement. We are aware of the call to slow down our lives, turn down the heat to gas-mark 1 and gently simmer.