“How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.” IfsChildrenMatterMotherLanguageMomConversationOutcomesWhat MattersInfantInitiate Author:Po Bronson
“We do live in an unsafe world. That's the truth. I'm dealing with that now, with my seven-year-old. He's grappling with the fact that the world is unsafe, and that there are people who do harmful things. I don't think there's anything wrong with presenting that idea. We can't lie to our children and pretend that the world is perfect, and everybody's happy, and everybody's out there to do good. It's just part of a bigger conversation.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsChildrenIdeasFactsLyingPerfectConversationBiggerOur ChildrenSevenSeven YearsPresentingUnsafeGrappling Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.” ChildrenUsedSidesWealthGrowing UpRichGrowingNew YorkStudentsCollegeListeningConversationKillingFinancialEastNewspapersReportersResidentsCollege StudentsChildren Growing UpEast SideGrowing ChildrenNewspaper ReportersUpper East Side Book:Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion