Owning Our Past Allows Us To Own

One Of The Most Distinctive Evolutionary Features Of Human Beings Is Our Unusually Long, Protected Childhood.

Babies And Young Children Are Like The Research And Development Division Of The Human Species, And We Grown-ups Are Production And Marketing.

Adults Often Assume That Most Learning Is The Result Of Teaching And That Exploratory, Spontaneous Learning Is Unusual. But Actually, Spontaneous Learning Is More Fundamental.

To Support The People We Care About Is Intrinsic, It Is Not Instrumental. It's Not Something We Do Because We're Hoping To Get Some Other Outcome.

There Is A Tension Between Our Desire To Get Our Kids To Turn Out A Particular Way Versus Letting Them Develop To Be Their Own Person. If There Were A Pill That Would Make My Child Turn Out The Way I Wanted, I'm Not Sure I'd Take It.