@DanKirner @chrismanfrank The book Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is only $17 on Amazon, and it's great!
Any Community-Notes expert over here? Need a little help. please DM.
caved and decided to try out Arc. Are we in the world where you can't even get on the web without creating an account first? 😔 let me know if I can skip that, otherwise I'm uninstalling :) pic.twitter.com/eZDnpA2QvX
i've been skimming all-time top posts in r/parenting and omg, this destroyed me. the oster/kaplan "parenting economics" set may tell you it doesn't matter how you raise your kid so long as you're not abusive, but they just don't understand the depth of the relationship pic.twitter.com/M1sdT67ysY
Saw a quote on TikTok that said, “how your kids treat you when they no longer need food and shelter is a direct reflection of how you made them feel when they needed you to survive.” Agree or disagree?
When I was 17, I got into a fight. A concussion for both me and the other kid. It led to a conversation with my dad that changed how I have approached my life since. Strangely, my dad wasn’t mad. As he said, quietly, “I’m deeply ashamed.” He didn’t punish me, or take… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… pic.twitter.com/OjdNMWElRo
"One of the great sins of developed civilizations is how little value we place on young people’s time. … learning that we warehouse young people in the prime of their lives … to little benefit to themselves or others, should provoke seething rage." richardhanania.com/p/critical-age…
Parenting tweet: Elimination Communication is amazing. When my wife first suggested it—‘potty training from day 1’ — I literally laughed in her face. Baby is now 8 months and crawls to her potty to go (!). Haven’t had a dirty diaper in months. Can’t imagine life without it.
If we really want to solve the mental health crisis we need to talk about homes with emotionally stable, patient, and consistent fathers.
All parents need to watch and absorb this video. pic.twitter.com/8SHdjk8xAx
My son is 8, and he is obsessed with coding. I've been teaching him Python, but it's challenging to find good programming tutorials accessible to kids. After some time, this is where we settled: 1. Book: Python for Kids: amzn.to/493SWcP 2. Online course: Brilliant's… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
4. when this plays out with my kid, and im sure it will, i would be careful to avoid making things so dramatic/binary. can you walk a little bit and then ill carry you a little bit? soothe him and love him if he’s distressed, but then cheerfully challenge him to grow
Having been a step dad for the past few years, this is basically the most important and most difficult thing to get right. Most of the other bits are reasonably low stakes/intuitive. This is neither - getting the balance right is super important
This is what good parenting looks like. The dad, not the mom. pic.twitter.com/94AuqSmF4T
Saving as an example of what I consider awful parenting. If this is ever a dynamic in part of I’ve failed as a parent
when I was a kid so many adults used to tell me “when you have a child of your own then you will understand (why adults bully and manipulate and condescend to children)” and like yeah now I understand… that all those adults were wrong and messed up lol twitter.com/moniza_hossain…
If you’re a dad and you want your kids to share hobbies with you, watch this video. Nothing is more important to me in life than sharing memories with my kids and making them want to be around me when they’re old enough to not be around me. pic.twitter.com/dkbMxHZMVK
that babies cry so much implies that either ancestral humans had no predators homing the sound of infant, or we're doing something wrong now
We’re a generation of genetic pack animals who r trying to raise newborns outside of the pack…& then complaining that it’s hard. Strange state of affairs
Childcare ages 0-3 doesn't have long term developmental benefits to children. Kinder ages 3-5 *does,* but in amounts that are too small to facilitate much paid work for parents. Childcare is about warehousing children so parents can work, you've said as much yourself. twitter.com/Samfr/status/1…
Have a friend who speaks to his kids like adults. They developed an advanced vocabulary early on. Then they started kindergarten. At school, they were surrounded by kids with limited vocabularies and "baby talking" teachers. When their speech degraded, he started homeschooling.
Have a friend who speaks to his kids like adults. They developed an advanced vocabulary early on. Then they started kindergarten. At school, they were surrounded by kids with limited vocabularies and "baby talking" teachers. When their speech degraded, he started homeschooling.
4. Little or no memories: when we can't remember much or anything about our childhood, it's likely we were dissociated. Dissociation is when we leave our bodies yet appear physically present. It's a protection mechanism that allows us to stay safe.
Andy Crouch on parenting: “Firmness and warmth, it turns out, are not actually opposites. They can go together—in fact, they must go together for children to flourish.” pic.twitter.com/0PuWYSw5Ld
Few of us had the opportunity to grow up in a functional family. People who do: have high self worth, confidence, & healthier adult relationships. Luckily, there are core traits and skills within functional families that we can all learn. THEY ARE🧵:
The parent wound can leave us feeling "stuck," unable to create healthy relationships, and in cycles of self betrayal. HERE'S HOW (🧵):
Our 1 y/o hasn’t woken us up once in the middle of the night since ~3.5mo old. She sleeps from 7pm to 7am every night. Falls asleep in minutes. We didn’t get lucky, we just followed a methodology we picked up from a few friends. Here it is.
I had been trying to verbalize this sentiment for years — when I witnessed siblings speaking on each other’s experiences pic.twitter.com/dmeDcuHrof
- Gabor Maté clips seem to be going viral recently. This is a good one
Exercise can affect your unborn children's genes by altering the chemistry of DNA in sperm and egg cells. Aerobic exercise for 3 months altered sperm DNA by silencing genes linked to the risk of autism, OCD, Alzheimer’s, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and atherosclerosis.