Getting Your Child a Seat at the Table

of that historic banquet of big ideas called The Great Conversation

The School of Athens , Raphael (c. 1511)

We’ve probably all experienced that one particular uneasy moment whenever you’ve set the table for special company—that moment when the doorbell rings. We race through our mental checklists to make sure we didn’t forget anything, check our teeth for some stray piece of broccoli hanging around, and then open the do…