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The Youngest Children Have A Great Capacity For Empathy And Altruism. There's A Recent Study That Shows Even 14-month-olds Will Climb Across A Bunch Of Cushions And Go Across A Room To Give You A Pen If You Drop One.

We Don't Wife Our Husbands And We Don't Child Our Parents.

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.

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.

We Provide A Secure, Stable Space For Children To Grow Up In, So Children Will Be Able To Take Risks And Have Adventures And Do Things That Are Unexpected. If There Isn't A Risk That Your Children Can Fail, Then You Haven't Succeeded As A Parent.