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Doucleff: SF parents give 120 verbal inputs hourly versus 2-3 traditionally
“In places where children have autonomy, parents give children, like, two to three verbal inputs in an hour. And I've done it on myself, I've done it with parents in San Francisco, and we are talking about, like, a 120 verbal inputs per hour.”
Doucleff: Nuclear family rise correlates with historical Catholic Church influence
“And this professor at Harvard has, like, tracked down the rise of the nuclear family correlates with how long ago the Catholic Church was brought into a society. And so Europe is the longest, and you see this very strong nuclear family, and then other parts of…”
Doucleff: No data supports using self-esteem praise to prevent youth misbehavior
“There was this idea that, like, The reason why kids started to use drugs and misbehave is because they had poor self-esteem, and that the way to help kids was to have, was to praise them, have, that gives them good self-esteem, but there was, the data don't su…”
Doucleff: Parents in most societies do not play with their children
“Most society's parents don't play with children.”
Doucleff: Data shows giving children smartphones increases their loneliness and isolation
“It's interesting because all the data show that when they get the phone, it makes them more lonely. It makes them more isolated.”
Doucleff: Modern parenting manuals trace back to historical orphanage guides
“Parenting books today, you can trace all the way back to those pamphlets. It's really incredible. And, of course, they weren't. The way you raise children in a home, you know, in a family, they were for these institutions, basically.”
Doucleff: Most traditional societies utilize four to five alloparents per child
“And it's funny because I always say, like, it doesn't take a village. It takes, like, five extra people. Like, you know, because if you look in some societies, so they're called alloparents. This is what scientists call them. They're people in children's lives…”