Brain Food: Maximum Flexibility
"If you could just change one thing in your child’s life, it would be to give them autonomy. Humans spent 200,000 years as hunter-gatherers. That’s where our brains evolved. That’s where we evolved in this context. If you look on lots of different continents, children have enormous amounts of autonomy in these communities, which implies that t
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Thinking more about this idea since it came up in the Bear Season 2 as well. I’ll struggle with this.
Brain Food: Chalkboard Decisions
mail.google.comHe urges individuals—and parents especially—to abandon the desire for instant gratification and easy answers as early performance on tests isn’t an indicator of professional success. He emphasizes traits over particular skills—be curious, flexible, open-minded, adventurous, experimental, and playful. Try and fail and try again. Explore. Read outsid... See more
Quartz • To thrive in a "wicked" world, you need range
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Parents most important role being: "preparing [our kids] to navigate and build their Tomorrow."
After thousands of hours conversing, I came to the conclusion that if we had one thing to watch out and nurture, the pillar of it all, the one precious trait that has been mistreated for way too long while being at the core of any human initiative... See more
Mathilde Baillet • Confidence & cie.
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A great way to think about parenting: Think of it as executing it from a place of where you’re the leader, leading from the heart with compassion, all the while supporting your child to be their best self
Farnam Street • Dr. Laura Markham: Peaceful Parenting [The Knowledge Project Ep. #52]
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