The science behind how parents affect child development | Yuko Munakata
TED Health
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Parenting - The Butterfly Flapping Its Wings
Trying to predict how a child will turn out based on choices made by the parents is like trying to predict a hurricane from the flap of a butterfly's wings. If you are a parent, you are the butterfly flapping your wings. Your child is the hurricane, breath taking force of nature. Like the butterfly shapes the hurricane in complex, seemingly unpredictable, but powerful ways. The hurricane wouldn't exist without the butterfly.
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