“SOME OF THE HARDEST parts of parenting never change—like sleep deprivation, which, according to researchers at Queen’s University in Ontario, can in… — Jennifer Senior Parenting Copy Share Image
“Dying, in other words — like combat, like becoming a parent, like any transformative life event — doesn’t always reveal or intensify… — Jennifer Senior Becoming a parent Copy Share Image
“Our stories may not always be pleasant as they’re being lived. They can in fact be just the opposite, acquiring a warm… — Jennifer Senior Happiness Copy Share Image
“As parents, we sometimes mistakenly assume that things were always this way. They weren't. The modern family is just that - modern… — Jennifer Senior Parenting Copy Share Image
“More than almost anything else, the experience of parenthood exposes the gulf between our experiencing and remembering selves. Our experiencing selves tell… — Jennifer Senior Children Copy Share Image
“But the truth is, there's little even the most organized people can do to prepare themselves for having children. They can buy… — Jennifer Senior Childhood Copy Share Image
“THE SENTIMENTALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD has produced a great many paradoxes. The most curious, however, may be that children have acquired more and… — Jennifer Senior Children 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 Day to day Copy Share Image
“But these gains in freedom for both men and women often seem like a triumph of subtraction rather than addition. Over time,… — Jennifer Senior Freedom Copy Share Image
“He just has to step away from the moment to see it. Which isn’t surprising. Lots of parents will tell you that… — Jennifer Senior Parenting Copy Share Image
“One could simply say it’s a legitimate fear-response, a reasonable and deeply internalized reaction to a shrinking economic pie.” — Jennifer Senior Fear 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
“Having worked so hard to have children, parents may feel it's only natural to expect happiness from the experience. And they'll find… — Jennifer Senior Children 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 Parenting Copy Share Image
“And if that’s the case—if we are our remembering selves—then it matters far less how we feel moment to moment with our… — Jennifer Senior Children Copy Share Image
“Parents can project into the future; their young children, anchored in the present, have a much harder time of it. This difference… — Jennifer Senior Children Copy Share Image
“And women, it turns out, pay a steep economic price for being mothers: according to Shelley Correll, a Stanford sociologist who looks… — Jennifer Senior Age gap 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
“Adults,” Phillips writes, “are not less excessive in their behavior than adolescents. Concentration camps were not run by adolescents; adolescents are not… — Jennifer Senior Concentration camp Copy Share Image
“If it’s of any comfort, B. J. Casey and her colleagues speculate that there’s an evolutionary reason why Kirk rather than Spock… — Jennifer Senior Adventure Copy Share Image
“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 another thing that quantitative studies of American time use cannot show you: for the majority of mothers, time is fractured… — Jennifer Senior Parenting 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 Parenting 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 Love Copy Share Image
“Yet somehow mothers and fathers believe that if only they could convey the logic of their decisions, their young children would understand… — Jennifer Senior Children Copy Share Image
