https://qz.com/527652/parents-let-your-kids-fail-youll-be-doing-them-a-favor How much of a helicopter do you want to be? What if our obsession over our kids actually drives negative behavior as they grow up, as opposed to leaving them alone to grow more independently? An interesting take over parenting styles nowadays and identifying that as the potential problem we see in kids nowadays.… Continue reading More Failure = More Success?!
Category: Child Development
What About Just Living an Ordinary Life?
Anything very wrong with that? Check out this quote by William Martin: "Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes,… Continue reading What About Just Living an Ordinary Life?
A Beautiful Mess!
https://www.learning-mind.com/intelligence-messy-house/ A messy house is a sign of intelligence! The reasons why people of exceptional intelligence may struggle with household chores are not so difficult to conceive of. Here are a few possible links: 1. They haven’t got the headspace to think about routine chores 2. They aren’t concerned with what others think of them… Continue reading A Beautiful Mess!
What Should Children Drink?
If you are at a loss with all the different advice given out there, here's a really simple one: for kids up to 5 years old, only water or milk. This is the latest recommendation given by Healthy Eating Research, a nutrition advocacy group. Turns out that giving them anything else, including fruit juice, increases… Continue reading What Should Children Drink?
What Makes a Child?
Children are really just pieces of us.
Never Stop Learning! 