Sublime

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.”

I have found this story cited in several places: for example, Jill Rigby’s Raising Respectful Children in an Unrespectful World (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), ch. 6. But I have yet to find an original source for the story

Send Out Thin Mints

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.

U—Uniqueness

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