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Parents Should Ignore Their Children More Often
17. All kids ever want is you. Your full undivided attention. Even twenty minutes of that in a day is better than a whole afternoon of scrappy conversations and phone scrolling.
Life Lessons From a 44 Year Old.
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
For the best results with your children, spend only half the money you think you should, but double the time with them.
The Technium • 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”