Caring for children has always been one of the deepest and most satisfying things that a human being … - Alison Gopnik

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Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

Alison Gopnik

Caring for children has always been one of the deepest and most satisfying things that a human being does, and yet it is hard to keep a healthy attitude toward it in our competitive, outcome-oriented society.

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The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

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Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: How should this society work? How should relationships among people work? The exploration is: Who am I, what am I doing?

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What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

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People talked about being a parent, or being a mother or a father. We don't talk about "wiving" our husbands or "friending" our friends, or "childing" our parents. We just talk about being in a relationship with those people. You don't measure whether your marriage was good based on whether or not your husband is better now than he was 10 years ago, or whether your friend is richer than when they first became your friend. The relationships between parents and children is a kind of love, rather than a kind of work.

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We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

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