I was a difficult child. Not in the vague way adults sometimes say about energetic kids... I remember it very clearly. I had opinions, a stubborn streak, and very little interest in doing something simply because someone told me to (or not to!) My earliest clear memory of bucking authority comes from kindergarten. I was doing something I wasn’t supposed to be doing. I don’t remember what it was, exactly, but my teacher put me in time-out in the corner of the room. The corner