Family Life
The exceptions were in two dimensions of personality: conscientiousness and agreeableness. Children were more conscientious when parents were more involved in their lives and worked to provide cultural stimulation (such as taking them to museums); and children were more agreeable when their parents raised them with more structure and goals.
Arthur C. Brooks • The One Big Thing You Can Do for Your Kids
One thing I know about you...
The 6-Word Phrase That Can Boost Your Child’s Confidence, From Toddler to Teen
“All feelings are welcome; all behaviors are not.”
The Ultimate Beach Survival Guide for Moms Who Want to Sit Down This Summer (Even with little kids.)
The Workspace for Childrentheworkspaceforchildren.substack.com
Parents think they can hand children permanent confidence—like a gift—by praising their brains and talent. It doesn’t work, and in fact has the opposite effect. It makes children doubt themselves as soon as anything is hard or anything goes wrong. If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children... See more
Carol Dweck • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
She wonders, “How can mothering be a way that we resist and combat the loneliness, the feeling of being burdened by our caring?” Motherhood doesn’t have to be a site of acquiescence to a broken structure, she argues; mothering can be a vehicle of rebellion.