Instead Of Just Saying, "i Love My

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

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.

There Is A Tension Between Our Desire To Get Our Kids To Turn Out A Particular Way Versus Letting Them Develop To Be Their Own Person. If There Were A Pill That Would Make My Child Turn Out The Way I Wanted, I'm Not Sure I'd Take It.

If You Just Got Enough Expertise And Enough Special Techniques And Read Up Enough, Then You Could Shape A Child Into The Kind Of Adult You Wanted. There's Almost This Kind Of Competitive Enterprise. That Picture Is The Picture I Think People Often Imply When They Use The Word "parenting".

The Brain Is Highly Structured, But It Is Also Extremely Flexible. It's Not A Blank Slate, But It Isn't Written In Stone, Either.