Sublime

It’s not just what you know, but how you practice what you know that determines how well the learning serves you later.

Understanding children has led us to understand ourselves in a new way.

It is sobering to think that even at such an early age, infants are capable of telling whether or not you’re an idiot—a judgment that, when you think about it, demands substantial cognitive and social abilities.

Part of love is wanting things (undivided attention, complete devotion, utter loyalty) you know you can’t get.

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As they hear us talk, babies are busily grouping the sounds they hear into the right categories, the categories their particular language uses. By one year of age, babies’ speech categories begin to resemble those of the adults in their culture.

emotional development, and social autonomic regulation than was believed in Freud’s day (Siegel, 2007).

We’ll summarize this big picture by elaborating on the three ideas we’ve presented in previous chapters. Foundations. Babies begin by translating information from the world into rich, complex, abstract, coherent representations. Those representations allow babies to interpret their experience in particular ways and to make predictions about new eve