One life lesson I taught my kids is always read the fine print. The way I taught this is whenever I read them a book, from age 2 and up, we always always always read the copyright and publishing info page first.
I don’t think it’s the showing up per se, but a feeling of healthy connectedness. Showing up might be part of it but it could manifest in other ways. I can’t help believing that really listening to kids and connecting with what’s going on in their heads is probably predictive of better outcomes.
Pretty sure high sat scores are genetic. I’d like him anyway, but it’s beautiful to have a kid functioning nicely in the world. Chip off the old blockhead.
Which leads to my new theory of humanity; there are two kinds of users–those who want to ignore themselves, and those who want to ignore everyone else.
Some cannot look in the mirror; others only wish to live in a hall of mirrors.
