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Raising children has come to look more and more like a business endeavor and less and less like an endeavor of the heart. We are overly concerned with “the bottom line,” with how our children “do” rather than with who our children “are.” We pour time, attention, and money into insuring their performance, consistently making it to their soccer game... See more

Madeline Levine • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

Will Human Curiosity Disappear in the Next 5 Years?

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La vie de nos enfants est aujourd’hui régie par des idées «qui sont très radicales et nouvelles. L’idée que les enfants ne peuvent pas jouer dehors sans courir de danger n’a jamais existé dans toute l’histoire de l’humanité. Les enfants ont toujours joué dehors, la plupart du temps sans supervision d’un adulte […]. Ça a toujours été le cas. Dire

Johann Hari • On vous vole votre attention !: Pourquoi vous ne pouvez plus rester concentré et comment y remédier (French Edition)

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This isn’t the study I read but it illustrates the same idea https://t.co/9B1JJUR9tX

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The good child has been deprived of one of the central ingredients of a properly privileged upbringing: the experience of other people witnessing and surviving their mischief.

Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education

I found it startling to discover that you can throw out almost everything we regard as schooling—all the testing, all the assessments, even formal teaching—and still produce people who can read, write, and function in society. This tells you how much of what we are neurotically putting our kids through is pointless (at best).

Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

In general, schools today have become places where we actively discourage thinking that is not predefined, approved, and stamped by the larger social system of the day; as such, schools reinforce a reward system based on consumption, acquisition, and status increases

Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking

The modern style of parenting is not just exhausting for adults; it is also based on assumptions about what children need to thrive that are not supported by evidence from our evolutionary past. For most of human history, people had lots of kids, and children hung out in intergenerational social groups in which they were not heavily supervised.