For a lot of my parenting life, I assumed that if I focused on my kids' academics they’d be ready for adulthood when the time came. But the deeper I’ve gone into the research, the more I’ve realised how flawed that assumption is. Here’s what I wish someone had told me years ago.
Want to know why some kids go deep and others skim the surface? I'm taking you through the 4 blockers that stop children from sticking with things, and how to create the right conditions for passion, persistence, and mastery.
If you've ever had to physically stand between your child and their game just to get eye contact, or watched as activities they once loved have been replaced by marathon gaming sessions, then the conversation I've just recorded might be the most important one you'll hear this year.
Today, we’re going to tackle this fear head-on, through hearing directly from the only people who can truly answer the resentment question: grown homeschoolers and unschoolers themselves.
If you've ever worried that not 'toughening up' your children will leave them unable to handle adult life, this will change how you think about building true grit. Because it turns out that everything we thought we knew about developing resilience was wrong.
Here I dismantle the common view of socialisation using a mixture of neuroscience and research. It will completely change how you see healthy social development, and how you feel about and respond to that question - especially when it’s you, asking it of yourself, in those times of doubt.
