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I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

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Alison Gopnik
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 16
Psychologist
University Teacher
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Preschool kids learn best when exploring, but kids in school learn best when they do things, interacting with a master. Unfortunately, our schools don't do much of either. Also, kids do need to learn how to deal with technology, and online education and otherwise using electronic devices as learning tools facilitates that.
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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.
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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 of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.
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Philosophers and psychologists have long puzzled over the question of how we know as much as we do despite our limited experiences. One way is to see how children learn. Another example is consciousness. The concept is usually explored by armchair academics. Looking at kids expands our conceptions of consciousness.
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We don't measure the quality of our other relationships by how well the other person turns out, for instance whether my husband is a better person after 10 years than he was when I first met him.
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One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.
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On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.
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Caring, whether for children or the dying, shouldn't be instrumental. It should be an intrinsic, moral good.
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What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
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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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Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.
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Caring for children has always been one of the deepest and most satisfying things that a human being does, and yet it is hard to keep a healthy attitude toward it in our competitive, outcome-oriented society.
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We don't wife our husbands and we don't child our parents.
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The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.
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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 learning is more fundamental.
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It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.
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Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.
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Being a grandmother is a wonderful thing, so my advice is skip the children. Go straight to the grandchildren.
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The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.
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