Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, or Do They Hurt Kids?
8 min readMar 24, 2021
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“Good fences make good neighbors.” Robert Frost reminds us of his neighbor’s long-held family belief in his famous poem Mending Wall. Every year the tradition stands; Frost and his neighbor walk the property line rebuilding the ancient fence at spring mending-time.
“Why do they make good neighbors,” Frost asks his neighbor. “Aren’t your pine trees and my apple trees…