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Being a developmental psychologist didn't make me any better at dealing with my own children, no. I muddled through, and, believe me, fretted and worried with the best of them.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Any Being Believe Best Better Children Dealing Developmental Make Me My Own Own Psychologist Them Through Worried

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What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Adulthood Answer Children Deal Earlier Good Good Deal Happens Later Puberty Reach Teenage Weirdness

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Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Also Causes Children Conclusions Discover Draw Effective Effective Way Get Information Learn Less Likely Makes Music Play Press Pull Say Something Specific Teaching Then Tube Unexpected Very Way

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We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Adult Children Differently Effortlessly Grown-Ups Learn Learning New Painful Skill Slow Than

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One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: After Best Children Find Got How Human Human Nature Nature Out Should Study Understand Understanding Want Way Ways Who

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In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Around Attention Babies Big Cared Children Culture Dedicated Growing Growing Up Had History Human Human History Isolation Just Just One Lots Many Most Our Paying People Person Places Really Related Shift Them Think Times Up Were Which Who I Think

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We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Ability Ages Around Bad Between Children Dirt Five Go Growing Growing Up Happy Isolation Just Lack Nothing Out People Play Poverty Quite Seem Support Them Up Which Zero

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Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Babies Children Development Division Grown-Ups Human Human Species Like Marketing Production Research Species Young Young Children

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We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Anything Attention Bad Children Distracted Easily Get Interesting Mean Paying Really Say

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Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Children Could Deeply Human Human Nature Imagination Imagining Knowledge Learn Love Nature Parts Philosophers Possibilities Scientists Separate Tend Testing Those Three Treat Truth Very Ways Were World

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