Becoming An Adult Means Leaving The World

Scientists Learn About The World In Three Ways: They Analyze Statistical Patterns In The Data, They Do Experiments, And They Learn From The Data And Ideas Of Other Scientists. The Recent Studies Show That Children Also Learn In These Ways.

We're In A Culture Where Everything Is Either Consumption Or Production, So Child Care Is Either A Very, Very Bad-paying Form Of Work Or A Very Expensive Luxury That You Purchase. There Isn't A Good Place In Our Picture Of The World For What Caregiving Is About. Even Teenage Babysitters Have Sort Of Disappeared From The Scene.

If Parents Are The Fixed Stars In The Childs Universe, The Vaguely Understood, Distant But Constant Celestial Spheres, Siblings Are The Dazzling, Sometimes Scorching Comets Whizzing Nearby.

It's Turns Out To Be Much Easier To Simulate A Grandmaster Chess Player Than It Is To Simulate A 2-year-old.

The More Obsessively We Focus On What A Particular Food Is Going To Do For Us, The Less Healthy We've Become. Simple Pleasures Become Complicated.