“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
“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
“Everyone is moving at the same speed toward the future. But your children are moving at that same speed with their eyes… — Jennifer Senior Children Copy Share Image
“And how long an activity lasts seems to have little influence on our recollections at all—two weeks of vacation, Kahneman noted in… — Jennifer Senior Memory Copy Share Image
“No matter how perfect our circumstances, most of us, as Adam Phillips observed, “learn to live somewhere between the lives we have… — Jennifer Senior Life Copy Share Image
“Drawing from 1.7 million Gallup surveys collected between 2008 and 2012, researchers Angus Deaton and Arthur Stone found that parents with children… — Jennifer Senior Ask questions 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
“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
“thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward,” Krishna tells his student Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita.)” — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“George Washington became an official surveyor for Culpepper County at seventeen and a commissioned major in the militia at twenty;” — Jennifer Senior George w Copy Share Image
“We enshrine things to memory very differently than we experience them in real time. The psychologist Daniel Kahneman has coined a couple… — Jennifer Senior Children 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 Children Copy Share Image
“They also create wormholes in time, transporting their mothers and fathers back to feelings and sensations they haven't had since they themselves… — 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 Family Copy Share Image
“Complicating matters, adolescent brains are more susceptible to substance abuse and dependence than adult brains, because they’re making so many new synaptic… — Jennifer Senior Substance abuse Copy Share Image
“But here’s the thing,” says Paul. “I would bet that if someone did a study and asked, ‘Okay, your kid’s three, rank… — Jennifer Senior Daily life 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… — Jennifer Senior Love Copy Share Image
“If that’s what joy is—connection—then to fully experience it requires something terrifying as well as exalting: opening oneself up to the possibility… — Jennifer Senior Joy Copy Share Image
“In addition, Steinberg has found that adolescence is especially rough on parents who don't have an outside interest, whether it be work… — 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
“researchers have discovered that adolescents do not walk around with a defect that prevents them from properly assessing risk. B. J. Casey,… — Jennifer Senior Science Copy Share Image
“ERIK ERIKSON, ONE OF the most innovative psychoanalysts of the twentieth century, wrote about these moments of existential review in his work… — Jennifer Senior Human life 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
“There is a certain part of all of us,” Milan Kundera writes, “that lives outside of time.” — Jennifer Senior Time Copy Share Image
