navigation

miete ("thought") + lause ("phrase")

count: 6

filter: tag = parenting clear


Grit (Angela Duckworth)


You're acting in a parentlike way if you're asking for guidance on how to best bring faith, interest, practice, purpose, and hope in the people you care for. Y axis: Supportive/Unsupportive; X axis: Demanding/Undemanding. Supporting/Demanding = Wise; Unspportive/Demanding = Authoritarian; Unsupportive/Undemanding = Neglectful; Supportive/Undemanding = Permissive
page: 199
tags: parenting

Teens with warm, respectful, and demanding parents earned higher grades, were self-reliant, suffered from less anxiety and depression, and were less likely to engage in delinquent behavior
page: 213
tags: parenting

Don't pass judgment on how other parents treat their children. In most cases, you don't have enough context to understand how the child interprets the exchange, and, at the end of the day, it's the child's experience that really matters
page: 213
tags: parenting

Parenting assessment here. See book notebook #1
page: 213
tags: parenting



Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)


Then they could tick off the terrific parenting checklist they carted around in their heads. It wasn't the bad stuff they did that made him angry, it was the good stuff. The stuff they patted themselves on the backs for. They knew nothing about him, what he liked, what he hated, what he longed for. They thought he was only what they could see. He wasn't a washout, knock on wood. Knock on wood, as if he was bound to fuck up, wander off the tracks, but he just hadn't gotten around to it yet. About the different, secret person living inside him they know nothing at all.
page: 1
tags: parenting



Reality is Broken (Jane McGonigal)


Children who play video games at home with their parents report feeling much closer to them, and demonstrate significantly lower levels of aggression, behavior problems, and depression.
page: 367
tags: depression parenting gaming