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A quotation from Orwell

The weakness of the child is that it starts with a blank sheet. It neither understands nor questions the society in which it lives, and because of its credulity other people can work upon it, infecting it with the sense of inferiority and the dread of offending against mysterious, terrible laws.

George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” Partisan Review (1952-09)

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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

A child should always say what’s true
   And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave mannerly at table;
   At least as far as he is able.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Poem (1885), “Whole Duty of Children,” A Child’s Garden of Verses

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Rates of asthma and allergies have been observed to be lower in children who are more exposed to dirt. A new investigation identified nine gram-positive bacteria present in German farm dust that are linked to reduced incidences of asthma, hay fever, and atopic eczema.

Every child needs to breathe more cow shit.

Summary: https://www.sciencealert.com/natural-protection-from-asthma-and-allergies-scientists-isolate-bacteria-behind-the-immune-system-farm-effect

Original paper: https://evidence.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/EVIDoa2500271

#Science #Health #ChildRearing #Asthma #Allergies

A longitudinal study of ~ 500 children in Singapore examined their academic performance and working memory at ages 9 and 10.5 relative to parent reports of their children's screen viewing time at ages 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 6, and 8 years. Greater screen time at ages 1 and 6 were associated with poorer academic performance at age 9.5 and poorer working memory at age 10.

Summary: https://scitechdaily.com/screen-time-at-ages-1-and-6-linked-to-lasting-learning-and-memory-effects/

Original paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12519-026-01046-1

#Science #Cognition #ScreenTime #Academics #ChildRearing

Review of cognitive outcomes in over 60,000 people born within a couple of years before and after the cessation of sugar rationing in the U.K. (1953) found that those subject to rationing in their first 1,000 days had lower risks of dementia (27%), Alzheimer's (46%), depression (11%) and anxiety (20%).

Summary: https://www.sciencealert.com/low-sugar-diet-early-in-life-linked-to-46-lower-alzheimers-risk

Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41514-026-00452-z

#Science #Cognition #Diet #Nutrition #Sugar #Dementia #Alzheimers #Depression #Anxiety #ChildRearing

Weekly monitoring of 368 Finnish children through the first year of life found that those from families with dogs had fewer respiratory infections and required fewer courses of antibiotics. Three dog-associated bacterial genera explained 25% of the protective effect. Protection may also be provided by aspects of the dog-owning lifestyle.

Summary: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-early-dog-exposure-babies-infections.html

Original paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pai.70408

#Science #Health #ChildRearing #Dogs

A study of almost 83,000 mother-child pairs found that babies who were breastfed in the first six months slept better an 1 year than those who were not.

Summary: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-breastfeeding-babies-longer-age-formula.html

Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-026-01718-1

#Science #Breastfeeding #ChildRearing

A quotation from Euripides

CHORUS: I say that mortals who have no experience
   Of and have never had children
   Have a better chance for happiness
   Than those who bear them.
 
ΚΥΚΛΩΨ: καί φημι βροτῶν οἵτινές εἰσιν
   πάμπαν ἄπειροι μηδ᾿ ἐφύτευσαν
   παῖδας προφέρειν εἰς εὐτυχίαν
   τῶν γειναμένων.

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1090ff (431 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2020)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/84588/

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Japonlar gibi (cezalandırmadan) sakin çocuklar nasıl yetiştirilir?

#JapanCulture #ChildRearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phphDARb4xw

A quotation from Steven Levitt

No one is more susceptible to an experts fearmongering than a parent. Fear is in fact a major component of the act of parenting. A parent, after all, is the steward of another creature’s life, a creature who in the beginning is more helpless than the newborn of nearly any other species. This leads a lot of parents to spend a lot of their parenting energy simply being scared.

Steven Levitt (b. 1967) American economist and author
Freakonomics, ch. 5 “What Makes A Perfect Parent?” (2005) [with Stephen Dubner]

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A quotation from Jung

Nothing exerts a stronger psychic effect upon the human environment, and especially upon children, than the life which the parents have not lived.

Carl Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychologist
Lecture (1929-06), “Paracelsus,” Literary Club of Zurich, Paracelsus House, Einsiedeln, Schwyz, Switzerland [tr. Hull (1966)]

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A quotation from Bertrand Russell

If you tell children that they ought to be affectionate, you run the risk of producing cant and humbug. But if you make them happy and free, if you surround them with kindness, you will find that they become spontaneously friendly with everybody, and that almost everybody responds by being friendly with them. A trustful affectionate disposition justifies itself, because it gives irresistible charm, and creates the response which it expects. This is one of the most important results to be expected from the right education of character.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 2, ch. 11 “Affection and Sympathy” (1926)

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A quotation from Jean Kerr

We are being very careful with our children. They’ll never have to pay a psychiatrist twenty-five dollars an hour to find out why we rejected them. We’ll tell them why we rejected them. Because they’re impossible, that’s why.

Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Essay (1957), “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies,” Please Don’t Eat the Daisies

More about this quote: wist.info/kerr-jean/82455/

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A quotation from Norman F. Dixon

The values communicated by status-insecure parents are such that their children learn to put personal success and the acquisition of power above all else. They are taught to judge people for their usefulness rather than their likableness. Their friends, and even future marriage partners, are selected and used in the service of personal advancement; love and affection take second place to knowing the right people. They are taught to eschew weaknesses and passivity, to respect authority, and to despise those who have not made the socio-economic grade. Success is equated with social esteem and material advantage, rather than with more spiritual values.

Norman F. Dixon (1922-2013) British cognitive psychologist, author, military engineer
On the Psychology of Military Incompetence, Part 2, ch. 22 “Authoritarianism” (1976)

More about this quote: wist.info/dixon-norman/82301/

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A quotation from Simone de Beauvoir

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself.
 
[C’est effrayant de penser qu’on marque ses enfants rien que par ce qu’on est.]

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) French author, existentialist philosopher, feminist theorist
Les Belles Images, ch. 3 (1966) [tr. O’Brian (1968)]

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A quotation from Anna Quindlen

If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting — often unwilling — recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen (b. 1953) American journalist, novelist
Article (1991-08-07), “Public & Private: Enough Bookshelves,” New York Times

More about this quote: wist.info/quindlen-anna/10605/

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A quotation from G. K. Chesterson

For there are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English journalist and writer
Essay (1921-10-15), “Child Psychology and Nonsense,” closing words, Illustrated London News, “Our Notebook” column

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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1881), “Virginibus Puerisque, Part 2”

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A quotation from John Adams

It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1775-10-29) to Abigail Adams

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/78363/

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#GenXer's #oldschool #paddle photo brings back vivid #memories, and wow, times have changed

https://www.upworthy.com/gen-xers-old-school-paddle-photo-brings-back-vivid-memories

#childabuse #spanking #childrearing #parenting

A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

There’s no way to repay a mother’s love, or lack of it.

Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 2 (1966)

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A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

If your children spend most of their time in other people’s houses, you’re lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you’re blessed.

Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 2 (1966)

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A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 2 (1966)

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A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

Our children know we lie to them, but not — thank God — how much.

Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 2 (1963)

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A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 2 (1963)

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A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin

We start out determined to see that our children are good; we soon settle for having them nice.

Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 2 (1963)

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Under a Japanese program being discussed, set to be fully launched as early as fiscal 2025, day care services will be available for a certain amount of time for all children aged 6 months to 2 years who do not attend nursery schools. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/07/14/japan/japan-infant-day-care/ #japan #childcare #children #childrearing

A quotation from James, P. D.:

«
I don’t think he had known much demonstrative love in his childhood and what a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/james-pd/68313/

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It takes a village: Hunter-gatherer approach to childcare suggests that the key to mother and child wellbeing may be many caregivers
#supportmothers #childrearing

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1007530

#Trans #women can #breastfeed too. Here’s why it’s #safe, #healthy and #good for both #mum and #baby.

Trans women’s #breastmilk is shown to be #healthy and #nutritious.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Pregnancy #ChildRearing #Representation

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/19/trans-women-breastfeeding-explainer-research/