Owning Our Past Allows Us To Own

Texts And E-mails Travel No Faster Than Phone Calls And Telegrams, And Their Content Isn't Necessarily Richer Or Poorer.

You Read A Bunch Of Books And You Get A Bunch Of How-tos, And You Take A Bunch Of Classes And You Learn A Bunch Of Techniques. You Set Yourself Goals And Benchmarks. I Think People Have Imported That Into Their Experience Of Taking Care Of Children.

Ineffective Or Weak Brain Connections Are Pruned In Much The Same Way A Gardener Would Prune A Tree Or Bush, Giving The Plant A Desired Shape.

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.

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.