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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.

Developmental Scientists Like Me Explore The Basic Science Of Learning By Designing Controlled Experiments.

Teaching Is A Very Effective Way To Get Children To Learn Something Specific - This Tube Squeaks, Say, Or A Squish Then A Press Then A Pull Causes The Music To Play. But It Also Makes Children Less Likely To Discover Unexpected Information And To Draw Unexpected Conclusions.

Instead Of Just Saying, "i Love My Baby And I Pick Him Up Because He's Adorable And It's So Nice To Cuddle With Him," We Practice Attachment Parenting. We Let Our Children Play Outside And Have Age-appropriate Freedoms And Are Labeled Free-range Parents.

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.