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The 6 ways of attaching: senses, sameness, belonging and loyalty, significance, feeling, being known

Free play is one of the irreducible needs of childhood, and it’s being sacrificed to both consumerism and the digital vortex our kids are caught up in

Children’s sense of security, trust in the world, and, above all, connection to their authentic emotions, hinge on the consistent availability of attuned and emotionally reliable caregivers with whom the child maintains the primary attachment

Many of us have skills and hobbies that our children could benefit from. Too many of us are outsourcing these to others. We should be rather possessive of these opportunists to invite our children to depend on us.

Neil Postman argues that childhood itself is endangered when adults no longer have any secrets from children. What our child most need to be informed about is not their world but themselves. We are the buffer.

Boredom is the sign of a child being empty of the emergent internal processes and content required to take in the world