Parenting and family stuff

good stuff from around the internet on raising good kids, building a family, etc.

How to Raise Tiny Humans Without Losing Your Mind

Walter Isaacson on the link between suffering and greatness and those with happy childhoods: “We grow up with fewer demons but we grow up with less drive. We end being Boswell and not Johnson. We end up being the observer and not the doer. Respect those who are in the arena…” A few... See more

andrea

Smart care subsidies for your workforce

heymirza.com

Avni Patel Thompson

Confidence & cie.

Mathilde Baillet awanderwoman.substack.com

kev

“Having parented successfully in the past may rank as a satisfying accomplishment retrospectively; but the bulk of research finds that being a parent, while it is happening, does not increase life satisfaction and may reduce it.”

Jonathan Rauch • The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50

sari

The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake

David Brooks theatlantic.com

sari and

getting upset at your kids for making mistakes doesn't teach them to not make mistakes, it teaches them to hide their mistakes

sari

The Diminishing Returns of Calendar Culture

Culture Study annehelen.substack.com

Jay Matthews

Are screens bad for children?

Samantha Watkins blueprintforagoldenage.substack.com

Stuart Evans