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Category Archives: Childhood Development
A Trendy Left-Wing Child Sacrifice: Transgenderism
I saw a video the other day featuring an American surgeon bragging that he had performed more than 3,000 double mastectomies on young women who had paid for gender reassignment, individuals confused – one might say encouraged – by those … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Climate, Energy, Everything You Think You Know Just Ain't So, Future, Germany, Green Quagmire, Ideology, Jordan Peterson, Nuclear Power, Postmodernism, psychology, Russia
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A Growing Brain Needs to Move and Go Places
Human cognition is based upon the simple concept of movement. The more the growing human moves — and is given good feedback on his movement — the better the brain can grow and integrate its many potential functions. Conversely, if … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Cognition, Human Brain
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Get Hardy, Get Gritty
Author Paul Tough (!) wants to help parents and children understand what it takes for kids to succeed in life. The video above is the full 8 hour audio book of one of his books, “How Children Succeed.” The book … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, psychology
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A Profound Portrait of a Young Girl’s Childhood
This video portrait of a bright and animated child from the age of 0 to 20 years, highlights some of the profound physical and psychological changes that occur during that time period. It takes a lot of work to get … Continue reading
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What Do Women Want, Anyway!?!?
To answer that question, it is important to understand that there are very real differences between men and women — starting fairly early in the womb. Watch the video above, or go to this website to reflect on 50 of … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Sex, Sex Differences
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Ask Me and I Will Play
Everyone has a song to sing, a story to tell, and love that they hold inside. Whether they are willing to bravely take the stage and put it out there for everyone to see, depends upon how their brain weighs … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Optimism, psychology
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The Smartphone Generation: Human Brain Optional
An eighth-grade teacher tells me that for many years she has had successive classes of students read the same book, Edith Hamilton’s Mythology. Her students have loved it — until five years ago or so. “I started to see kids … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Cognition, Technology
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Toxic Secrets: The Profound Burden on Physical and Mental Health
When people feel forced to keep dark secrets from people they care about, they carry a painful burden of guilt and shame. This can make them feel cut off and isolated emotionally from loved ones, and often keeps them from … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Incest, psychology
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Don’t Belittle Those You Will Have a Use For
What is belittling? Belittling is the intentional act of making another feel worthless, empty, and dismissed. It is one of many forms of psychological and emotional abuse. Belittling another often creates a personal emptiness and void. It can create a … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Childhood Development, Incest
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Lockdowns are Destroying a Generation of Children
Social isolation seems to be taking a toll. With most large, urban school districts planning remote-learning only this fall, the isolation is likely to continue for many children—unless parents step in to alleviate this loneliness. An article in The Wall … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Groupthink, Incest, Pandemic
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Why Bother Having a Family?
As swamp creatures and their parasitic fellow travelers seize upon their latest US power play triumph, the basic human undertaking of starting and raising families is likely to become far more difficult and expensive. You have to really want it, … Continue reading
Posted in anthropology, Childhood Development, Uncategorized
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Are Humans Losing their Grip on Complex Thinking?
We are animals that specialize in thinking and knowing—in cognition—and our extraordinary cognitive powers have enabled us to do remarkable things. We have transformed our eating habits with agriculture and cooking, and transformed our habitats with buildings, bridges and roads. … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Education, Human Brain
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Part of “the Deceit of Growing Up”
There is no way to get from infancy to adulthood without suffering through a million tiny lies and self-deceptions. The neuropsychology of growing up provides insufficient cognitive resolution at the time it happens, to allow our developing bodies/brains and puny … Continue reading
You Must Learn to Face the Pain and Suffer
This article was previously published on the Dangerous Child blog You must, where necessary, learn to face pain and to suffer, in order to destroy and assimilate the pathological material contained in the symptom. (p. 166) __ Perls, Hefferline, Goodman … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Dangerous Child
Tagged psychology
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The Curdling of the American Mind
Below, Jordan Peterson interviews the two authors of the recently released book “The Coddling of the American Mind:” Watch the first ten minutes of the interview above, and you will understand why I suggest substitution the word “curdling” in place … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Groupthink, University
Tagged leftist idiocy, university
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Lord of the Flies: World Without Men
William Golding’s 1954 novel Lord of the Flies is a glimpse into how quickly a world of boys — without men to guide their development — can degenerate into unbelievable savagery. It is one of those books which should be … Continue reading
Sex Hormones Determine Male and Female Brain Differences
From Monkeys to Humans, Hormones Shape Brains Scientifically Correct, but Not Politically Correct Prenatal exposure to sex hormones shapes the neonatal brain from the very beginning. Testosterone pouring out of the tiny testicles of male fetuses begins to cause the … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Cognition, Human Brain, Sex Differences, Testosterone
Tagged Sex Differences, sex hormones
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Forest Schools and The Dangerous Child
The following article is cross-posted in adapted form. It was originally published on The Dangerous Child blog. Liberating children from the tyranny of classroom indoctrination and institutional groupthink should begin early. The “forest school movement” and the “forest kindergarten movement” … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Education
Tagged Education, raising children
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A Mind Forever Young
Maintaining A Youthful Outlook Two striking features of healthy children are a curious inquisitiveness and a sense of playfulness. Young kids are always asking questions. Ordinary preschool children ask about 100 questions per day. But then something tragic often happens … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Competence, Creativity
Tagged Education, human brain, raising children
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What Kind of Pathetic Wimps are We Raising?
When we raise kids unaccustomed to facing anything on their own, including risk, failure, and hurt feelings, our society and even our economy are threatened. Yet modern child-rearing practices and laws seem all but designed to cultivate this lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Competence, Dangerous Child, Education, Groupthink, University
Tagged risk, university
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Dangerous Child Method vs. Robinson Curriculum
The following article is cross-posted from The Dangerous Child blog The Robinson Curriculum Teaches the Basics The homeschool curriculum devised by Arthur Robinson, PhD., prepares children and youth to excel in the challenging modern world of rapidly advancing science and … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Competence, Dangerous Child, Uncategorized
Tagged Mastery
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The Teacher’s Job is to Prevent Students from Learning
Schools today are based on the underlying assumption that students should learn answers. This commonsensical assumption is wrong. Students should instead learn how to ask questions and pursue their own answers. __ Roger Schank Children begin learning while in the … Continue reading
How Reality is Like a Circle, and Not Politically Correct
Reality as it is incorporated into the brain is neither tame nor sequential. It is cyclical and wild. The sooner we learn to equip our young to deal with the evolving world as it is — rather than an idealised … Continue reading
Is “Image” Really Everything?
Note: In an age when most of mainstream international media is united in prosecuting an “image war” against an unconventional but accomplished US president — using unnamed sources, innuendo, and all the weapons of propaganda — we must remember the … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Competence, Dangerous Child, Education
Tagged Mastery, psychology
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Why are Today’s Young So Juvenile?
Update: The fantasies of today’s young speak ill of their upbringing and education. Earlier generations took on responsibility at young ages. Benjamin Franklin left school and began his working career at age 10. His writing career began at age 12 … Continue reading
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