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Some live, laugh, and love for your Tuesday
First some laughs.
If any social media algorithm knows you are the parent of a young child, you have likely come across the advice videos by the very celebrated, smart child psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy. She wrote a bestseller called “Good Inside” that was recommended to me by several Very Together mom friends and she currently has an Instagram following of 379 billion. We defer to her expertise between one and thirty times a day. Here is how [the insanely funny Bess Kalb] imagines she would handle the following scenarios...
And living.
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Stumbled upon this, which I LOVE.
At some point in the 1970s, Lego included the following letter to parents in its sets:
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The text reads:
The urge to create is equally strong in all children. Boys and girls.
It's imagination that counts. Not skill. You build whatever comes into your head, the way you want it. A bed or a truck. A dolls house or a spaceship.
A lot of boys like dolls houses. They're more human than spaceships. A lot of girls prefer spaceships. They're more exciting than dolls houses.
The most important thing is to the put the right material in the their hands and let them create whatever appeals to them.
Happy Volcanoes
Pint-sized wisdom for your pint-sized people. Sourced from experts. Delivered to your inbox.
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This week, an unlikely book: “The Inner Game of Tennis.” I’m not a tennis player, yet this book hits my top five. I also just heard that Michael Lewis credits this book for bringing fun into his life, so, there’s that endorsement. I recently re-read it with an eye toward parenting. I think it has a lot to teach us about how kids learn and how to cultivate and protect their curiosity. And it may help us rediscover that curiosity within ourselves. Unlike many Happy Volcanoes favorites, this...
Siegel and Payne Bryson (SPB), authors of No-Drama Discipline, ask us to redefine discipline for ourselves. Importantly, discipline DOES NOT mean punishments, consequences, or chalkboard time and these things aren’t the point of parenting or why any of us signed up (usually and hopefully). SPB points out that the word discipline comes from the root word: disciplina, which means “to teach,” you know disciples and all that… So as you read this and go back to banana peel-throwing kids, remember:...