Caring, Whether For Children Or The Dying,

We Pass Our Values, Ideas And Moral Character On To Our Children, But We Do That Knowing That Our Children Are Going To Revise Our Knowledge And Reshape Their Values. There's Something Very Paradoxical And Profound About Being A Parent As Opposed To Parenting. We Put In All This Effort And Energy Not So That We Can Shape A Child Of A Particular Sort, But So That All Sorts Of Possibilities Can Happen In The Future.

On The Web We All Become Small-town Visitors Lost In The Big City.

Philosophers And Psychologists Have Long Puzzled Over The Question Of How We Know As Much As We Do Despite Our Limited Experiences. One Way Is To See How Children Learn. Another Example Is Consciousness. The Concept Is Usually Explored By Armchair Academics. Looking At Kids Expands Our Conceptions Of Consciousness.

What's It Like To Be A Baby? It's Like Being In Love In Paris For The First Time After You've Had Three Double Espressos.

What Happens When Children Reach Puberty Earlier And Adulthood Later? The Answer Is: A Good Deal Of Teenage Weirdness.