José Antonio Lopez

“We should be encouraging our children to push themselves, to develop their talents and passions, but we should also be aware that the bromide “You can do anything” is wishful thinking.”
― Madeline Levine, Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World

“The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.”
― Grace Llewellyn, The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education

“Character is that which reveals moral purpose, showing what kind of things a man chooses or avoids.”
― Aristotle, Poetics

“Reasoning does create a paradox: it leads both to more rule following and more rebelliousness. By explaining moral principles, parents encourage their children to comply voluntarily with rules that align with important values and to question rules that don’t. Good explanations enable children to develop a code of ethics that often coincides with societal expectations; when they don’t square up, children rely on the internal compass of values rather than the external compass of rules.”
― Adam Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World