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Parents are often dumbfounded by how quickly children learn new words, not realizing that every word they are saying is now leading the baby to search for events and objects in the environment that are unfamiliar and to derive a two-way relation between those events or objects and these new words.
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, seek new strategies, and keep on learning.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
Children actively interpret and try to understand both what people do and why they do it.
Children actually learn more from the unconscious details of what caregivers do than from any of the conscious manipulations of parenting.
Children learn by watching and imitating the people around them.
And they learn by listening to what other people say about ... See more
Children actually learn more from the unconscious details of what caregivers do than from any of the conscious manipulations of parenting.
Children learn by watching and imitating the people around them.
And they learn by listening to what other people say about ... See more
Derek Sivers • The Gardener and the Carpenter - by Alison Gopnik | Derek Sivers
When it came to their own children, these underconfidence-generating parents would have applied a similar method of judgement: the issue of how much and where to love would have been to a large extent determined externally. If the world felt the baby was adorable, they probably were (and if not, then not so much). Later, if the child won a maths pr
... See moreThe School of Life • On Confidence (Essay Books)
If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, seek new strategies, and keep on learning.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Parents have long been sold a model of childrearing that simply doesn’t work. From reward charts to time outs, many popular parenting approaches are based on shaping behavior, not raising humans. These techniques don’t build the skills kids need for life, or account for their complex emotional needs. Add to that parents’ complicated relationships w... See more