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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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Today the assumption which pervades American culture is the belief that your child’s personal fulfillment is roughly equivalent to the fulfillment of your child’s desires. A child presumably knows her own desires better than her parents possibly can. If the key to human fulfillment is the satisfaction of immediate and uneducated desire, then the
... See moreLeonard Sax • The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups
Quote from After Babel:
... See more“Another mistake is believing that our children are more advanced than others in terms of the strength of their character; unfortunately, our values are not passed through our genes. Despite our efforts to train our teens to “do the right thing” on their screens, teens are not gifted with the willpower needed for social
The Gift of Dyslexia: Why Some of the Brightest People Can't Read and How They Can Learn
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The value of phone-free and even screen-free education can be seen in the choices that many tech executives make about the schools to which they send their own children, such as the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, where all digital devices—phones, laptops, tablets—are prohibited.
Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
You must help your child to find meaning in life that is not about their latest accomplishment, or how they look, or how many friends they have, but about who your child is, their truest self.
Leonard Sax • The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups
If we really want to keep our children safe, we should delay their entry into the virtual world and send them out to play in the real world instead.