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Inspiring and passionate 7-year-old, Molly Wright delivered a @ted talk on just how much our brains develop in the first five years of our lives and the five things that are essential to helping us develop well and reach our full potential: connecting, talking, playing, a healthy home, and community.
femalequotientinstagram.comBecoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children (LifeTools: Books for the General Public)
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“What matters most in how kids turn out is who we are as parents”
Farnam Street • Dr. Laura Markham: Peaceful Parenting [The Knowledge Project Ep. #52]
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
I just watched one of the best talks ever given on what smartphones, social media, and ed-tech are doing to childhood and education. From Sophie Winkleman.
If you question the wisdom of the screen-based school day, you must watch, just 20 minutes:
https://t.co/QBdpNhRyVR
Jonathan Haidtx.comConsider what it takes for a child to develop into a grown-up. We enter our lives in a state of utter dependence on adults. Eventually, God willing, we become adults ourselves, capable of navigating daily life on our own. The journey from the former to the latter, Gill told me, ought to be one of gradually expanding independence. Parents shouldn’t... See more
The Atlantic • Cities Aren’t Built for Kids
Children need a balance of nurture and structure, and so do adults. In the process of learning to provide for our children, we need to learn better nurture and structure skills for ourselves as well.
Connie Dawson • Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children
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.”