Get some more tips on how to help our children cope and maybe even thrive in a world filled with stress. Then let’s get ready to spend some time taking a close look at America’s experience (ongoing experiment?) with assimilation. Is it fact or fiction? Are we really trying to make it happen? What enhances the chances of real assimilation taking place? What stands in the way?We’ll spend a few days exploring this topic at a time when anything but true assimilation is making the headlines on a weekly basis.