The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Walk a mile in my shoes" is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in an...other's place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Too often I hear people say, "Well, at least so-and-so is a good person." When did being a good person become the least thing we c...an say about another? And are we raising children who will someday find that this is the least thing they can say about themselves?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are better advised and more educated than any other generation of parents. Yet this deluge of literature and advice can also le...ave us feeling overwhelmed and inadequate. Where is the joy of bringing a child into the world if we are always afraid of making a mistake?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In spite of our worries to the contrary, children are still being born with the innate ability to learn spontaneously, and neither... they nor their parents need the sixteen-page instructional manual that came with a rattle ordered for our baby boy!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we focus exclusively on teaching our children to read, write, spell, and count in their first years of life, we turn our homes ...into extensions of school and turn bringing up a child into an exercise in curriculum development. We should be parents first and teachers of academic skills second.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It will help us and our children if we can laugh at our faults. It will help us tolerate our shortcomings, and it will help our ch...ildren see that the goal is to be a human, not perfect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »