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At the gate at the end of a woodland walk, a young black and tan Rottweiler tugs happily on a rope toy held by a teenage girl with a strawberry-blond plait, the loose lead hanging untouched beside them.

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The Fidget Toy

Put a fourteen-year-old in a long meeting and something has to move. A knee jigging, a pen clicking like a woodpecker, the corner of a page folded into something like a swan. A good teacher doesn’t shout about the pen. She hands over a fidget toy, and the energy goes somewhere harmless.

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