Allen Sanderson
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Allen Sanderson
Want happier, healthier kids?
Offer them autonomy.
Massive new meta-analysis makes it plain:
In every culture, control leaves children worse off — but autonomy helps them people engage, learn, and grow.
Offer them autonomy.
Massive new meta-analysis makes it plain:
In every culture, control leaves children worse off — but autonomy helps them people engage, learn, and grow.
Daniel Pink • Tweet
This is Daniel Pink’s actual tweet on autonomy and the comments below are helpful to investigate public perception on the issue.
The Awe of God: The Astounding Way a Healthy Fear of God Transforms Your Life
amazon.com
Saw this on Amazon when I was looking up Brunello Cucinelli’s book Solomeo. It seems his book is in Italian? But either way The Awe of God looks good.
“What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
Mataroa — Blogging platform for minimalists
I like the simplicity and humanity of what Jorge is saying here.
The Dream of Solomeo: My Life and the Idea of Humanisti…
goodreads.com
Is there an affordable English version of The Dream of Solomeo?
Makes sense. A friend I know who’s a builder said it well: “in 30 years of building I’ve never had a lawsuit related to one of my homes - ever. Always able to work it out if there is an issue. In the most recent 5 years, I’ve started to have lawsuits because the people moving here, you can’t work with them.”
Contemporary research has shown that children do pretty well when offered autonomy.
Many 80s parents practiced what University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau, PhD, has come to call “accomplishment of natural growth.” That’s the idea that parents are there to provide kids with food, safety and love, in order to facilitate a self-dir... See more
Many 80s parents practiced what University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau, PhD, has come to call “accomplishment of natural growth.” That’s the idea that parents are there to provide kids with food, safety and love, in order to facilitate a self-dir... See more
Patrick A. Coleman • A 1980s Parenting Style Could Save Summer
Catharine Cox studied 300 geniuses of history
Found persistence matters more than IQ:
"High but not the highest intelligence, combined with the greatest degree of persistence, will achieve greater eminence than the highest degree of intelligence with somewhat less persistence" https://t.co/kNvRoGbvby
This seems to connect to the:
importance of solitude,
Frederick Buechner’s The Remarkable Ordinary,
Haemin Sunim’s The Things You See Only When You Slow Down and..
C.S. Lewis’s quote from Surprised by Joy regarding his childhood full of ample books
The extraordinary seems to come rushing in when a child has autonomy and exploration without control