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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".

From An Evolutionary Perspective Children Are, Literally, Designed To Learn. Childhood Is A Special Period Of Protected Immaturity. It Gives The Young Breathing Time To Master The Things They Will Need To Know In Order To Survive As Adults.

Putting Together Philosophy And Children Would Have Been Difficult For Most Of History. But Very Fortunately For Me, When I Started Graduate School There Was A Real Scientific Revolution Taking Place In Developmental Psychology.

Some People Say That Parents Don't Matter, And That's Not True At All. The Irony Is That We Pay Attention To All These Things That Don't Matter, And Not To What Does Matter, Such As Parents Having Enough Resources To Provide An Environment Where Their Children Have Both Security And Freedom.

Caring For Children Has Always Been One Of The Deepest And Most Satisfying Things That A Human Being Does, And Yet It Is Hard To Keep A Healthy Attitude Toward It In Our Competitive, Outcome-oriented Society.