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“Throughout most of my early maturity, philosophy had little enchantment to me,” Elissa Strauss wrote in 2022. “So long as I handled individuals principally kindly, what did it matter what I considered proper and improper, or the character of information or the universe?”
“Till, after all, I had my first little one.” Strauss’s son Augie “wished to know issues”—together with the kinds of issues she couldn’t discover a lot sensible use for when she tried taking Philosophy 101 in school. Youngsters, she quickly realized, are instinctive philosophers.
At the moment’s e-newsletter takes a take a look at how children communicate and tips on how to communicate to them in moments of curiosity, pleasure, and battle.
On Speaking With Youngsters
Need to Perceive Socrates and Sartre? Discuss With Your Child.
By Elissa Strauss
A brand new ebook asks us to contemplate that kids might need a pure aptitude for grappling with our deepest philosophical questions. (From 2022)
How a Negotiation Professional Would Discount With a Child
By Joe Pinsker
Some tactical strategies for managing unstable, typically nonsensical negotiation companions
Is It Unsuitable to Inform Youngsters to Apologize?
By Stephanie H. Murray
Some dad and mom argue that forcing kids to say they’re sorry is ineffective and even dangerous. The fact is extra nuanced.
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