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Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.

~Carl Honore

Topics: About Attached Attention Between Competitive Conditions Cross Giving Journey Kids Lots Love Parenting Parents Project Should Slow Sport Understand

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We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'

~Carl Honore

Topics: Algorithm Baby Box Broken Child Chronic Conflict Cure Educational Einstein End Flat Global Illness Know Mend Pill Poverty Relationship Sadly Solve Stomach Strike Terrorist Thing Tip Transform Dvd

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To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.

~Carl Honore

Topics: About Balance Bringing Childhood Children Does Explore Give Home Me Mean Need Own Parenting Parents Plenty Race Should Slow Space Stretch Strive Struggle Terms Themselves Time Time And Space World

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Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Calm Creatively Distractions Experience Free Know Leads More People Pressure Research Shown Stress Think Time Tunnel Tunnel Vision Vision

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You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Any Anyone Away Breaks Clearing Company Creativity Daydreaming Desk Encouraging Get Google Other Personal Problem Projects Pursue Rest Schedule Serendipity Space Staff Start Stuck Take Time Unlock Use Work You Your

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We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?

~Carl Honore

Topics: Afternoon Facebook Friends Got High Last Last Time Park Sitting Spent Them Time

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I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Approach Away Based Britain College Deeper Education Fast-Food Going Harder Idea Kind Learning Measure More Movement Moving Moving Away Slow Something Up

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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Book Context Does Doing Everything First Global Got How Mean Means Movement Pace Praise Putting Right Slow Snail Speed Stuck Towards Trend World

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We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Almost Aspect Community Culture Diet Environment Every Fail Health Lives Notice Our Our Community Our Lives Relationships Speed Takes Toll Work

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When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Activities Also Around Bill Dissolved Easier Else Enrichment Entered Extended Extended Family Family Fit Front Had Home House Just Kids Moms Only Perfectly Pick Play Promising Slack Someone Stayed Supervision Up Women Workplace

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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