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The Western tradition in parenting is to inculcate virtuous habits into children. Again, this goes way back. In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle wrote that a person becomes virtuous by doing virtuous acts. Behavior becomes identity. The historian Will Durant, commenting on Aristotle, observed, "We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
The Collapse of Parenting
Leonard Sax
Worth obsessing over:
- Anything that compounds
- Behaviors that never change
- Things you might believe only because you want them to be true
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The full spectrum of healthy conversational tempos ranges from leisurely, uninterrupted taking-of-turns with active listening, through impatient and interruptive finishing of each other’s sentences and violent agreement, to violent disagreement.
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