Our relationship to children
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Our relationship to children
The truth about children is that they are here to meet their needs, not ours. Some parents don’t realize this and think that children should be willing to act against their self-interest, give up what they want most, and do whatever a parent asks.
Lindsay C. Gibson • Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: Honor Your Emotions, Nurture Your Self, and Live with Confidence
He said that with the vast majority of cases of kids with attention problems that come into his office, if he listens carefully and offers practical support to change the child’s environment, it almost always reduces or ends the problem they have.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
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. You
... See moreDarby Saxbe • Parents Should Ignore Their Children More Often
if children hear nothing about their parents’ jobs, or if they are given only simplistic answers to their inquiries about “what mommy and daddy do at work,” they are going to be programmed with naive beliefs.