Parenting Resources

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	"the last two chapters deal with parenting. It turns out kids don't learn from what parents tell them, but how their parents live."

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	"Parents often unwittingly expect their kids to be like them. It turns out the Golden Rule does not apply. So the challenge becomes noticing children's unique energy and nurturing it."

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	"Recommended by my mother, Leela Goswami (www.leelagoswami.com), a lifelong humanraiser. The key insight: reading to children long before they can read helps them become great readers!"

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	"recommended by multiple friends who have kids"

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	"Rather than transmit one's particular values, philosophy and spirituality to children, the task is to help them think for themselves and come to their own answers to life's BIG QUESTIONS. It turns out they're natural philosophers!"

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	"parenting wisdom forged from the crucible of single-parenting"

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	"We're all on our own individual hero's journey. Helping children realize and take responsibility for their own journey is the greatest gift we could give them."

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	"let your child discover their passion, then nurture it - 10,000 hrs is what it takes to be great, which is about 10yrs. Tiger Woods, Einstein, Richard Branson, Mozart and Bill Gates (to name a few) just got an earlier start than the rest of us with the ever-present encouragement and support of their parents."

The list author says:
	"understanding why 10,000 hours of deliberate practice is the secret - the neocortex needs multiple exposures to the same phenomenon to develop a rich time-based hierarchical model"