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Madeline Levine • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
Barbara Sarnecka, an associate professor of cognitive sciences at the University of California, Irvine, told Lenore that today “adults are saying: ‘Here’s the environment. I’ve already mapped it. Stop exploring.’ But that’s the opposite of what childhood is.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
What is required of parents is not perfection but attention, a willingness to learn and relearn, repeatedly—what each child individually needs, and needs from us, in order to blossom and thrive.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
If the child gets a D, the parent doesn’t take it personally and doesn’t freak out at the kid. Instead, they sit down and make it clear the child is capable of much better than a D grade, and together they figure out what the most challenging obstacles were.
Adam Smith • Slaying Your Fear: A guide for people who grapple with insecurity
You must, however, spend sufficient time with the child on your own for the techniques to be as effective as possible. The point is to stay with the strong feelings you may encounter instead of running away from them. You want to feel these feelings, to tolerate and focus on them. An overwhelming majority of the time, if you can tolerate the feelin
... See moreDon Kerson • Getting Unstuck; Unravelling the Knot of Depression Attention and Trauma
Only to the degree we as parents are attuned to our own being will we know how to help our children attune themselves to their unique essence.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama • The Conscious Parent
They learn that their parents will love them more when they are “good,” they shut down the parts of themselves they fear are unacceptable.