It's Turns Out To Be

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.

Young Children Seem To Be Learning Who To Share This Toy With And Figure Out How It Works, While Adolescents Seem To Be Exploring Some Very Deep And Profound Questions: How Should This Society Work? How Should Relationships Among People Work? The Exploration Is: Who Am I, What Am I Doing?

Children Are The Most Amazing Thing In The Universe, As Far As I'm Concerned. If You're Worrying About How It's Going To Turn Out, You Aren't Experiencing That Day-to-day Satisfaction Of Being With These Incredible, Extraordinary Creatures. Every Single One Of Them Is The Most Incredible, Extraordinary Creature That You're Ever Going To Want To See. I Think The Joy Of Having That Deep Relationship - That's The Core Of What Being A Parent Is.

Putting Together Philosophy And Children Would Have Been Difficult For Most Of History. But Very Fortunately For Me, When I Started Graduate School There Was A Real Scientific Revolution Taking Place In Developmental Psychology.

Because We Imagine, We Can Have Invention And Technology. It's Actually Play, Not Necessity, That Is The Mother Of Invention.