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The Gardener and the Carpenter - by Alison Gopnik | Derek Sivers
The purpose of loving children is to give those helpless young human beings a rich, stable, safe environment - an environment in which variation, innovation, and novelty can blossom.
Derek Sivers • The Gardener and the Carpenter - by Alison Gopnik | Derek Sivers
on parenting
Children actively interpret and try to understand both what people do and why they do it.
Children actually learn more from the unconscious details of what caregivers do than from any of the conscious manipulations of parenting.
Children learn by watching and imitating the people around them.
And they learn by listening to what other people say about ... See more
Children actually learn more from the unconscious details of what caregivers do than from any of the conscious manipulations of parenting.
Children learn by watching and imitating the people around them.
And they learn by listening to what other people say about ... See more
Derek Sivers • The Gardener and the Carpenter - by Alison Gopnik | Derek Sivers
Children imitate only intentional actions. They try to reproduce what the actor wanted to do - not just the action itself.
Children not only imitate, they overimitate.
Children seem to assume that other people are out to teach them important things about the world unless they get direct evidence to the contrary.
Children not only imitate, they overimitate.
Children seem to assume that other people are out to teach them important things about the world unless they get direct evidence to the contrary.
Derek Sivers • The Gardener and the Carpenter - by Alison Gopnik | Derek Sivers
Young brains are designed to explore; old brains are designed to exploit.