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Too many of the teenagers I encounter in my practice and across the country are late in developing what it will take to function as an adult and create adult relationships: agency, independence, intimacy, fortitude, and self-reliance. Often it's because their community (not just parents but also peers, teachers, and extended family) is focused exclusively on the high-school paper chase and fails to encourage these qualities. I try desperately to convince these teens and their parents that delayi
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― Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World
― Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World
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...before most of us possess an inkling that babies could be listening to us, infants are making astonishing connections between listening to human voices and developing their language system.
Think how much more can happen in those regions when parents slowly, deliberately read to their children, *just to them*, with mutually focused attention. This disarmingly simple act makes huge contributions: it provides not only the most palpable associations with reading, but also a time when parent and
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― Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
― Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
