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The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.
Alison Gopnik
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Alison Gopnik
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 16
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Philadelphia
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Some people say that parents don't matter, and that's not true at all. The irony is that we pay attention to all these things that don't matter, and not to what does matter, such as parents having enough resources to provide an environment where their children have both security and freedom.
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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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We provide a secure, stable space for children to grow up in, so children will be able to take risks and have adventures and do things that are unexpected. If there isn't a risk that your children can fail, then you haven't succeeded as a parent.
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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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On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.
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What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.
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Adults tend to think they have much free will. Kids younger than six are less sure. They may be more realistic!
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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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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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The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.
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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 young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.
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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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Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.
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Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.
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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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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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Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.
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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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