(As with anything else I write about parenting, this is mostly just my observations with my own two kids and may not generalize as well as I think it does.) A few weeks ago I wrote about why I think it's valuable for parents to be predictable. I was mostly describing an end state, though, and reasons why it's a good place to be, but what should you do if you're interested in being more consistent
The power imbalance between parent and child leaves a trace | Aeon Essays
Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace
New paradigm for psychology just dropped
OR: the ideas your mother warned you about
Parenting - Fable | Stories for everyone
Delivering the world’s best social experience with exceptional stories in service of mental wellness.
After an Autism Diagnosis: 13 Necessary Next Steps For Parents — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
If your child has recently been diagnosed with autism, please take my hard-won advice: Learn from my mistakes, so you don't repeat them.
Opinion | My Students Can’t Read
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
Eliciting Advice Instead of Feedback Improves Developmental Input
Most organizations encourage employees to provide feedback to one another to support learning, personal growth, and career advancement. However, employee feedback often fails to improve performance because it lacks concrete, specific guidance. We provide a temporal explanation for why workplace input processes routinely fail to produce valuable and concrete developmental insights: they are insufficiently focused on the future. In this paper, we theorize and demonstrate that encouraging input providers to think about the future leads them to produce more concrete developmental input. Across a large scale, preregistered field experiment (n = 27,432 comments) and two laboratory studies (n = 806), people provide more concrete and actionable developmental input when they are prompted to provide future-looking “advice” rather than “feedback,” a common method of soliciting input in organizations. The effect of soliciting advice on input concreteness was mediated by providers’ future focus. Moreover, in a follow-up study, such concrete input was assessed by independent raters as more useful. These findings highlight the role of temporal orientation in driving the content of developmental input. In doing so, our data suggest that individuals and organizations have the potential to promote higher-quality developmental input by attending to the temporal orientation that their input systems encourage. This paper was accepted by Isabel Fernandez-Mateo, organizations. Funding: Funding for the laboratory experiments was provided by Harvard Business School. Supplemental Material: The supplementary appendix and data files are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.03207 .
Brainchildren
Minds are complex artifacts, partly biological and partly social; only a unified, multidisciplinary approach will yield a realistic theory of how they came i...
The best writing advice I’ve ever read comes from Robert Frost.
I write prose, not poetry, but the most helpful piece of advice I’ve ever read was written by a poet: Robert Frost, who was born 147 years ago today. In the second, expanded edition of his Co…
How I Learned to Read Way, Way More
I had to rethink my relationship to attention
Moving Car-Free as a Parent
Observations & reflections on moving around with an infant–photo diaries included.
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't know there's anything wrong with it.
Parenting - An SMBC comic collection
A collection of comics about parenting, compiled from over 20 years of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, and also from experience.
Developmental Spaces: Cultural incubators for a time of transformation | Developmental Spaces
The system transformation needed to address our interconnected crises requires a shift at the level of collective worldview. Towards such a shift - and the resilience and flourishing needed to navigate societal breakdowns wisely and create the new - we offer a model of Developmental Spaces (DS):
Is personality so predictably linked to chronological age that unique experiences usually play only a minor role in personality development? Comments and criticism are welcome on the intro draft of a paper proposing and testing this hypothesis. shorturl.at/QPKpw
