Michele Pasin / Quotes

Parents trapped in the management paradigm

I’m convinced that too often parents are also trapped in the management paradigm, thinking of control, efficiency, and rules instead of direction, purpose, and family feeling. And leadership is even more lacking in our personal lives. We’re into managing with efficiency, setting and achieving goals before we have even clarified our values.

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#parents #family #leadership #values

I figli che crescono e si allontanano

Fino all’anno scorso avevano la naturalezza di una piccola tribù di selvaggi: la costante ricerca di contatto fisico e mentale, la sovrapposizione continua di…

Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea) #children #parents #family #changes

Career change: build your team

Who can help you accept that change happened, recognise opportunities and prepare yourself to embrace them? I enlisted others to help me: personal trainers…

Lessons From My Career Change: Five Ways To Make Your Move Sustainable | Guardian Careers | Guardian Professional #friends #opportunities #family

Gran's sugared almonds

Then she would fish bleakly in a bag of sugared almonds that she produced from somewhere on her person, making a big show of offering me one, since she knew I…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #family #childhood #love #food

IQ is a dress size, not a birth date

Like Kirstie’s dress size, IQ is malleable. IQ has been shown to vary over one’s life span, and it is surprisingly vulnerable to environmental influences. It…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #intelligence #environment #family #measures

Il Giappone è come un country club

Le chiesi se le mancava mai il Giappone. Sospirò e un’espressione calma le si dipinse sul viso. «Sì. No. Non lo so. I primi due anni mi mancava. Poi sono…

Dio odia il Giappone (Douglas Coupland, M. Howatson and Anna Mioni) #japan #expatriates #family #communication

Knowledge is social as well as personal

For years, early educators, schooled in Piaget’s theories, viewed children’s knowledge as being constructed from personal experiences. Although Vygotsky also…

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) #knowledge #culture #constructivism #family