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Mo Willems's book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! was a favorite of my youngest granddaughter, Maeve, so I read it to her often. I also used it as the inspiration for her birthday book, which is a collection of photos from throughout the year that I usually make into some kind of story (I do one every year for each of my grandchildren). Maeve's fifth book, titled Don't Let Maeve Drive the Bus!, was filled with wonderful things that Maeve could do, like playing soccer, reading, and climbing, but it conveyed the message that we would never want a 5-year-old to drive!

Along those same lines, we don't want emotions driving our lives. Adding to our lives? Yes. Driving our learning? Yes. My friend Robert Sylwester, author of A Celebration of Neurons (1995), tells us that "emotions drive attention, which drives learning, memory, and just about everything else" (p. 99). But we should also keep in mind Brené Brown's warning against emotion as the sole driver of learning: "If emotion is driving, where is logic and thought? In the back seat? Or worse, in the trunk!" (Jarvis, 2019).