Children naturally seek risk and thrill as part of their development.
Engaging in slightly dangerous activities helps them learn to manage risks, build resilience, and develop coping mechanisms.
Overprotection can hinder this process, making them mentally fragile.
Early academic pushing offers no advantages and can be counterproductive.
Delaying formal academic instruction until age seven, as practiced in Scandinavia, produces excellent results.
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Jonathan Haidt is a Professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, social psychologist, and an author.
The kids are not alright. Mental health is plummeting while anxiety and depression is on the rise. Just what are the contributing elements? Is it social media? Helicopter parenting? 24 hour news? Or something else?
Expect to learn why every generation complains about the next one, what is so important about the development of kids between 8 and 12 years old, what the biggest problem is with test scores in primary school children, the real harm of technology on kids, why words like ‘trigger’ and ‘fragility’ are such a problem, if there is a way to do identity politics well and much more...