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I think, at the end of the century we'll have a generation of parents and a generation of children who won't have had the deep satisfactions of being parents and being children in the way that they might have and are going to spend a lot of time fretting and worrying and being hovered over for nothing. The question isn't so much "What will happen in the long run?" but "What's happening to people's lives right now?"

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Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and …

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The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch …

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Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

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All of us gardeners know that nothing comes out the way you planned. It's a different garden every year, and it's always sort of different from what …

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We pass our values, ideas and moral character on to our children, but we do that knowing that our children are going to revise our knowledge and resh…

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The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

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Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous lea…

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What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

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From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the youn…

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