The Youngest Children Have A Great Capacity

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.

Young Children Seem To Be Learning Who To Share This Toy With And Figure Out How It Works, While Adolescents Seem To Be Exploring Some Very Deep And Profound Questions: How Should This Society Work? How Should Relationships Among People Work? The Exploration Is: Who Am I, What Am I Doing?

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.

Owning Our Past Allows Us To Own Our Future.

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.