“Children learn from the world through doing, touching, experiencing; adults on the other hand, tend to take in the world through their… — Jennifer Senior Books Copy Share Image
“This is what parents do—what all of us do, in fact, when we’re at our unrivaled best. We bind ourselves to those… — Jennifer Senior Child Copy Share Image
“...as Dr. Spock points out, raising happy children is an elusive aim compared to the more concrete aims of parenting in the… — Jennifer Senior Child Copy Share Image
“In that same lecture, Kahneman confessed that the outsize power of the remembering self mystified him. “Why do we put so much… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“We long for experiences “of profound connection with others,” he writes, “of deep understanding of natural phenomena, of love, of being profoundly… — Jennifer Senior Ancient greek Copy Share Image
“NO GRAPH IN THE world can do full justice to these unexpected moments. They’re sweet little bursts of grace, and they leave… — Jennifer Senior Children Copy Share Image
“It’s a heady question, how women balance these concerns. Recently, the question has found its way back to the center of a… — Jennifer Senior Books Copy Share Image
“It was a woman in Minnesota who clarified this shift for me. She pointed out that her mother called herself a housewife.… — Jennifer Senior Housewife Copy Share Image
“But young children, whose prefrontal cortexes have barely begun to ripen, can’t conceive of a future, which means they spend their lives… — Jennifer Senior Children Copy Share Image
“TO MY MIND, THOUGH, there is a third development that has altered our parenting experience above all others, and that is the… — Jennifer Senior Change Copy Share Image
“That women bring home the bacon, fry it up, serve it for breakfast, and use its greasy remains to make candles for… — Jennifer Senior Family Copy Share Image
“If one takes meaning into consideration, happiness might best be described as “a zest for life in all its complexity,” as Sissela… — Jennifer Senior Climbing mountain Copy Share Image
“I was so struck by Flow’s negative implications for parents that I decided I wanted to speak to Csikszentmihalyi, just to make… — Jennifer Senior Children Copy Share Image
“Neurologically speaking, though, there are reasons we develop a confused sense of priorities when we’re in front of our computer screens. For… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
