Children

“I think it'll be more normal over time. And at some point it'll be abnormal To have children without doing this kind of screening and editing, because it'd be like, well, this is so risky.”

“255,000 children are born every year to non-citizen parents.”

“Children tend to be naturally colorblind unless they are actively programmed another way.”

“And you know why kids act out more? It's not because they're taking advantage of you. It's because they feel that much more dysregulated because they don't feel like there's an adult in the room who's willing to put a container on their, like, shell-less egg t…”

“Roblox, which I think is actually continuing to do enormous damage to children worldwide.”

“You don't need to sit down your kids and tell them about money. But every time you say, we can't afford this, every time you make a snide comment about your neighbor's yard, every time you choose the hotel to go on, they're always paying attention. And by the …”

“There will be a barbell where certain parents will police it and see very good outcomes for their parent, for their children and other parents won't. And they will see bad outcomes from their children.”

“I really think that you know, people can only have one save the children conversation at a time. Like, you can't have multiple conversations About save the children.”

“We have more puppies in the United States than children today. As of two years ago, like the line officially crossed more puppies than kids, right?”

“They're gonna look at jobs that we're doing today, and even jobs that the next generation is doing, and then 20 years from now, they're gonna look at that and go, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not even gonna think about that. So I think the conscious shift in, in…”

“If you want your children to give a shit about companies, buy them one single stock, because the minute you have any form of ownership, your interest level will go through the roof.”

“More than 50% of children have problems swallowing sometime in their life.”

“What you realize is you didn't teach your kids values. You taught your kids an authority structure and the authority structure was you're in charge and what you say is go and what you say, go. And you know what? Maybe that's fine as long as you're in charge be…”

“You're not giving them access to the internet. You're giving the world access to them through the internet. And they're not, they are not capable of understanding certain concepts or being exposed to certain ideas at these tender young ages where they have not…”

“When we take that test, that spelling test, and we stick it with magnets on the refrigerator, it's out of pride. The challenging message that we inadvertently can send to our children Is that we only love them because they got an A on the spelling test. And so…”

“I wish I would have been tougher with them”

“For 10 years, you are your child's favorite person in the entire world. And after that, they have new favorite people. They have friends, best friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, partners, spouses, children of their own, and you will never occupy that same place…”

“It's not only not an outlier, I'd say it's universal. The pandemic really impacted all aged children.”

“There really was a significant body of research pointing to The challenges and potential danger, dangers, and I don't think we need to wait for more science. I think, you know, we don't let children play with knives. We don't wait till we find out what happens…”

“When I look at children of that age now, their lives are so much more complex, right? They know about every student in every school in Bombay and what happened. I mean, if something unusual out of the way was to happen, Let's say a kid was caught taking drugs.…”

“Envy is one of the key motivators, and people are envious of their children.”

“But there's lots of indirect ways in which one person can influence another by suggesting what would make them happy, what they believe in. You don't have to, you know, you can talk about one thing and actually be talking about another. And when children grow …”

“I think children are one of those things that just almost always makes you better. Coming home after a long day of work and giving them a hug and having dinner with them kind of washes the day away, resets you a little bit, and then you move on and I think mak…”

“These algorithms are so good. That they are now causing a dopamine deficiency in children. It's causing depression because you can get desensitized and every time you swipe up, you get a dopamine hit”

“Don't push them away, because if you keep pushing them away, by the time they're seven or eight and they actually can start kind of helping, they're not stupid. They're like, that's not my job. You know, like you've pushed me away for six years. Why would I he…”

“Most society's parents don't play with children.”

“It's interesting because all the data show that when they get the phone, it makes them more lonely. It makes them more isolated.”

“They don't have the mental capacity to carry a phone into their room and not go to bed.”

“There may be kids who need the stimulant, but stimulants are profound, and they are given out way, way too readily without first seeing if we can make adjustments in the child's environment to help them, you know, handle their distractibility.”

“Holding kids to high standards, high expectations gives them a sense. It honors them with the sense that they have capacity. They have capability. Obviously, if you disappoint, if you, if you're giving a kid a zero, what you're saying is you could have done th…”

“Because your public voice will one day be their inner voice, which controls their destiny, their belief in themselves, their joy and happiness in life.”

“If instead you think about making your kids proud, it turns you toward realizing your hidden potential. And it also reminds you that part of that is, you know, is not just the success that you achieve, it's also the contributions that you make.”

“Kids are gonna, you know, kids are gonna grow up with basically, you know, you could use various terms, assistant, friend, coach, mentor you know tutor but you know, kids are gonna grow up in sort of a, this amazing kind of back and forth relationship with AI,…”

“Now, if you know video games, and I know video games, and if you know phones, and I know phones, the idea that your kid is going to be able to stop themselves at a certain time is, is just probably setting everyone up for failure. It's just, you get sucked in,…”

“And so I know with 100% conviction that it will make a difference to your kid, even if they don't gratify you by saying something back that's kind in the moment.”

“Like, we don't reproduce. We produce, and this kid is a stranger, and our job is to kind of get to know them. But the word reproduction brings, like, right from the start, brings up very different fantasies for us.”

“There are more dogs than children. In the Bay Area.”

“I think the number one thing that you can do to set your children up for failure is to protect them from the fact that life is brutal.”

“The more well off a parent and family is, the more they coddle their kids, and the more they try to keep them from feeling pain.”

“So, if you're not going to teach your kids to struggle, and have a positive attitude through the struggle, then they're not going to win at life, man. They're just not going to win at life. They're going to be soft. They're going to blame other people for thei…”

“情報と概念を指先で使いこなせれば、これらのツルハダレよりもあなたを加速させるでしょう。逆に、サンバイナーナーの計算をするために電卓を使ったり、第二次世界対戦外走行とかを調べるためにググルに行かなければいけない子供は、世界に取り残されてしまうでしょう。”

“There's certain categories where people have an irrational spend limit. And I think the saying is Dogs, and weddings, and children.”

“He also argues that's the best time to give to your children when they're 26 or 35. Because his view is that it's the point at which they can enjoy the money the most or the benefits of your money the most, but they can also be fiscally responsible with the mo…”

“Children ask great questions because they're not, they don't have the overlay Of what should I be asking? They don't have the overlay of, I need to look smart. They don't have any filter. They're just asking the question that come, that occurs to them.”

“I think one thing that's useful for parents to remember is about the science of emotional contagion, that like, you know, we naturally catch other people's emotions. If you're embodying calm, and this is going to be fine, and everything's okay, then kids are g…”

“We've relegated our children to a bunch of years of really complicated relearning and learning that they never had to go through because of all the learning loss they gave them.”

“So, so what I did, what I've done is I created this like Google sheet and every time they have money, they want to put it, instead of putting your piggy bank, they put it in our kid's loan account. And it collects interest. So essentially, instead of giving th…”

“They're at very low risk for getting the virus. They're very low risk for transmitting the virus if they get it. And even if they get it, they're at almost no risk for it being harmful or, you know, to cause serious illness or death.”

“When people would ask that horrible question that you ask children, which I don't think children should be asked, what do you want to be when you grow up?”

“When they see themselves as part of a team effort, it's much easier for them to self-regulate because they know that they're part of a group, part of a team.”

“Kids tend to draw strong inferences from their parents' reactions to mistakes. So Kyla's work began with a very curious observation, which was that the correlation between kids' Parents' beliefs about the malleability of intelligence and their parents' beliefs…”

“The best thing you can give your children is parents who know how to support each other and stand together and help each other. Not only that, but you give your children even something more valuable by doing that. You give your children a vision of what a good…”

“It's not a good idea to have huge conflicts all the time in front of your kids. Indeed, the research is that's not good for them. It freaks them out. But, you know, I feel like there's something very healthy about my kids have seen me and my husband really dis…”

“Kids learn best from feedback, from experience. And beginning, especially in the 19 nineties in the United States, and I think perhaps in Canada too we began really overprotecting kids. That is not giving them unsupervised time where they could learn from thei…”

“And so from age eight to 12, I think, is a sensitive period where kids are supposed to have adventures with other kids they play all kinds of games, they self-organize, and what we've done is we've taken that critical period, and we've said, stop, you don't ge…”

“That what matters most in how kids turn out is who we are as parents. It's not a set of strategies, right? It's a relationship, and every relationship comes from two people having that relationship, and in our case, we're the guidance.”

“No two year old is ready to make all her own decisions and no 12 year old or even I would argue 15 year old or 16 year old is ready to make all of her own decisions.”

“It is natural, I will add, for children to have a hierarchy of attachment objects, people. So it is natural for a child who lives with both parents to have one parent who they select as being the one that they will most go to when they're hurt because they kno…”

“Their self-esteem comes from two things. One is from feeling unconditionally loved and adored and valued and delighted in. But the second is from being able to get their needs met, to do things well in the world.”

“So the parent-child relationship is eroded a little bit because the child sees that parent is not completely emotionally trustworthy. This parent is capable of attacking the other parent, or this parent lets themselves be attacked. And doesn't stand up for the…”