Parents

“Particularly when I hire chief of staffs, I always make them these questions, and I say, you don't have to answer to me, but if you feel comfortable, ah, to think about that.”

“These clouds, I mean, I don't think Meta publishes it or Google publishes it, but my guess is that it's around ten million computers in like these clouds globally, if not tens of millions, and no one brain has any chance. Parents have absolutely no chance. And…”

“41% of parents say that if they could start over and do things differently with putting their children online, they actually would want to, you know, start over. And 60% would want to be able to erase all the information about the kid that today is on these bi…”

“It's something like 20, 25% of Gen Z is like willingly chosen not to speak to at least one parent.”

“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 …”

“Whenever you have spoiled children, it's usually not because the children had a big material life. It's because the parents, maybe without even knowing it, taught their kids that you should judge other people by how much money they have, not how much wisdom th…”

“One of the things I've learned as a principal now, and I've been principal for three years, is parents want their kids to be educated the way they were.”

“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.”

“It doesn't matter what your income is. Parents will pay 10% of AGI. Right, of their income on their kids' education.”

“I think it's becoming less common for children to go to one school just throughout the entire life cycle. I think more parents are choosing sometimes even to homeschool for a bit. There's a lot of people who now homeschool during those middle school years beca…”

“The biggest issue, education is hard because you have to define the product, and your customer bases have very different needs, right? This is why when I talk about public school being impossible, you, parents do not agree on what the purpose of an education i…”

“I think there's going to be a line we cross where you actually request parents to do the self-driving because it will be so much better than the human.”

“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…”

“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…”

“If we as parents and as educators and as technology purveyors don't create some protection for young people who, by the way, cannot necessarily make the distinction or blur the distinction between what is real and what is fantasy, then we are going to have mor…”

“In a study of entrepreneurs' emotional experiences and neurological activation, scientists used functional MRIs while asking entrepreneurs to think about an image of their business. They conducted the same experiment with parents, asking them to think of an im…”

“We're expecting rightfully so for parents to spend a lot of time with their children, but the world is not conducive to that at all, unless you've retired or you're not working.”

“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 …”

“In New York City, where I fled with my children, because they were trying to do this to our schools and our classes, that's the policy, private and public. You do not tell the parents.”

“And I think that culture and society is broadly just tired of this. It largely hasn't delivered. In fact, it's mostly delivered dystopian nightmares to parents to, we've talked about it on this podcast for a year.”

“If your parents are demanding you give them a thousand dollars a month, but you can't pay your debt off, You have to tell your parents, I'm sorry, I would love to give you money, but I need to be able to do this, and this first.”

“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.”

“The tech industry has all this knowledge and tools and goals about technology and how it affects your brain and it affects children's brain more that way because of, you know, they're not as developed. And parents have none of it right now. It's a really, real…”

“Parents are pouring in way more time to their kids than the previous generations.”

“They have so little confidence right now because we've done, because the mental health industry has done everything it can to divest them of any sense that they know what they're doing.”

“You have very little, you have no influence whatsoever, basically on what your child's personality is. What you can do as a parent is make sure they say please and thank you.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Because my identity as a parent is wrapped up in your success. Paul Assaiante: No question about it.”

“40% of parents are in debt because of the cost of child care.”

“Expose your child in teen years to as many of your friends who might be possible role models as possible. Like at some margin, they're just not going to listen to you anymore. They're not going to watch your behavior anymore. They know what you're about. They'…”

“No, and I believe the answer is no. I mean, it has not been the case for me.”

“Most I feel most people start companies because they want to prove to their parents, That they can sort of, I think generally, I mean, if you go in the deep into, why would people want to, society, I mean, like general expectations. Like as growing up, maybe t…”

“You know, and the answer is about 95% of parents, because we trick ourselves into believing that if we dress, rehearse tragedy, then when something bad happens, it will hurt us less.”

“There's a way I feel like parents don't usually get to reap the total harvest of their hard work, because as soon as the kids are self-sufficient, they go.”

“Well, I'll tell you, it's easier, it's much easier for a teacher to teach something to your child than it is for a parent, and I think one of the reasons we have teachers is because there's this emotional bond somehow that, you know, if your child isn't doing …”

“My parents never congratulated me on anything I ever accomplished. It was just assumed that that's what you were supposed to do.”

“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…”

“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.”

“Our children are born with very incomplete neural systems, and so their limbic system, which is the old word for the emotional parts of the brain and neurology, that limbic system is born pretty unfinished and takes shape in interaction with the parent.”

“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…”

“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…”

“Parents aren't that concerned about getting their kids test scores up. So they may want them to have high SAT scores, but in terms of state standardized tests, most parents don't care about that stuff very much. And instead, they're mainly concerned about gett…”

“One of the fundamental problems that modern parents face is the fact that in some respects, kids know more about what's going on in the kids' lives than the parents do.”

“Kids are sophisticated, strategic reasoners in figuring out how to get what they would like to from their parents.”

“You are their parent till they reach puberty, and then you become their mentor, their model, their guide. I really dislike it when people say, my teenager is my best friend. I say, get a life. You know, they need a mentor. They don't need a friend right now. N…”

“Once you send your kid off to school full-time, parents remain involved in some respects. I think reading is one of the main ones. They still think, feel like it's their job to make sure they're reading regularly to their child and helping to reinforce, you kn…”

“Judy Dunn found, for example, the average siblings, two little beautiful, you know, laughing two and four year old siblings are fighting with each other six times an hour, right? So every 10 minutes they get into a squabble, or they're wrestling, or pulling ea…”

“How you get them to empathize is by asking questions and then being quiet and letting the kids reason. So, you know, if a conflict's happening, the parent who leads the kids towards empathy is saying things like, God, you know, why is your little sister crying…”

“I think it's important for parents to let kids Experience suffering and to see suffering, right? To recognize that there's pain that this is part of the human condition, because that's really what activates a lot of the pro-social stuff is suffering. And, you …”

“If we could just create value for parents, enough value that, like, there's something that they want to pay for. That could be interesting, and if it could be, like, relatively affordable on, you know, the order of 10 bucks, let's say. Like, a month, like, tha…”

“The argument that Harris makes, it's quite compelling is that parents aren't quite as important as they think they are.”

“This is the first generation in American history to be poorer than their parents from an income standpoint, from a wealth standpoint”

“I meet so many parents with kids, they use their children as excuses of why, like, I mean, there is a limit, but it's such an easy excuse for parents. They say, well, Nathan, I can't take the risks you took because I have a kid. Bullshit. Like, you can figure …”

“Parents are really the biggest influencer in student spending.”