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Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Vygotsky: imaginative play teaches self-control
Vygotsky was one of the few researchers of his era to study dramatic play in children. He predicted that the ability of the under-5 crowd to engage in imaginative activities was going to be a better gauge of academic success than any other activity—including quantitative and…
Authoritative parenting works best
Authoritative: Just right Responsive plus demanding. The best of the lot. These parents are demanding, but they care a great deal about their kids. They explain their rules and encourage their children to state their reactions to them. They encourage high levels of…
What moral means, and whether it is innate
What exactly does “moral” mean? Are any moral absolutes embedded into our brains, or is moral awareness only culturally understood? These questions have occupied philosophers for centuries. The word “moral,” in both its Greek and Latin incarnations, has a strong social…
Conscience and internalized rules
Turns out it’s surprisingly difficult to explain proactive moral behavior, like voluntarily helping someone cross the street. Even enlightened self-interest does not fully explain certain types of human altruism. The road between moral reasoning and moral behavior is quite…
The three-legged stool of moral upbringing
Families who raise moral kids follow very predictable patterns when it comes to rules and discipline. The patterns are not a behavioral insurance policy, but they are as close as research gets us right now. Many interlocking components make up these patterns; an illustration…
Punishment must be firm, consistent and swift
How not to punish kids? Try the 1979 movie Kramer vs. Kramer. The film is about a divorcing couple and the impact of the experience on their young son. Dustin Hoffman plays the workaholic, unengaged dad whose parenting instincts have the subtlety of dog food. The scene opens…
Warm, explained rules earn committed compliance
Overall, a clear picture emerges about how to raise well-adjusted, moral children. Parents whose rules issue from warm acceptance and whose rationales are consistently explained end up being perceived as reasonable and fair, rather than as capricious and dictatorial. They are…
Durante (Andrea De Carlo)
Quando i fatti scavalcano le parole
“Astrid, aspetta!” ho detto, mentre le correvo dietro attraverso il prato. Gli altri ci guardavano, tra costernazione da gioco finito male, amarezza da regole sociali violate, incredulità per come i fatti avevano preso il sopravvento sulle parole.
How Books Will Become Machines
Cultural tool vs cultural machine
As machines, they offer much more possibilities than traditional ones. However, these various new modes of usage are explicitly programmed. A paper map can be used freely, including for other purposes than its original function (wrapping an object, taking a note). It is a…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
The "just one more rule" defence
A recurring justification for the inadequacy of logic-based systems is the “just one more rule” defence. Rather than questioning the enterprise as a whole, the tendency is to persevere with the powerful idea of formalized knowledge dating back to Hobbes.
Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)
Un paese pieno di leggi e privo di regole
Però la guida criminale è uno degli innumerevoli comportamenti che detesta di questo paese affollato di leggi e privo di regole, maleducato, indifferente, volgare, vigliacco. L’idea che faccia potenzialmente parte anche della propria natura lo riempie di un rancore sordo, lo…
Rifiutare la scelta tra bianco e nero
A pensarci da qui, con la stanchezza e la tristezza della situazione finita che le invadono i pensieri, le sembra davvero un gioco ridicolo di opposti: ordine-confusione, allegria-rassicurazione, superficialità-profondità, divertimento-noia. Non ha mai accettato l’idea di dover…
I calzoni corti degli uomini adulti
“Senti” dice lui. “Quando ero bambino, la cosa che sognavo di più era arrivare al giorno in cui avrei potuto liberarmi per sempre dei calzoni corti. Erano un simbolo così umiliante di immaturità, di sudditanza.” “Di sudditanza?” dice lei, come se avesse qualche dubbio sul…
Pareto Principle - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Pareto principle
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80–20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.[1][2] Business-management consultant Joseph M. Juran suggested the principle…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Being in a double bind
No one who has been hoaxed into the belief that he is nothing but his ego, or nothing but his individual organism, can be chivalrous, let alone a civilized, sensitive, and intelligent member of the cosmos. But to be lived this way, the life-game has to be purged of…
Befuddled adults, befuddled children
Instead of giving our children clear and explicit explanations of the game-rules of the community, we befuddle them hopelessly because we—as adults—were once so befuddled, and, remaining so, do not understand the game we are playing. A double-bind game is a game with…
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
First ask what users will do with your graphic
It is tempting to propose rock-solid rules—if you want to show change through time, use a time-series chart; if you need to compare, use a bar chart; or to display correlation, use a scatter-plot— because some of these rules make good common sense. [...] But reality is complex…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Toddlers also need firm limits
At the same time, they need consistent, firm, reassuring limits set by caring adults.
Make-believe play builds self-regulation
While much is known about the positive effects of make-believe play on children’s social, early literacy, and early mathematical development, research has shown that make-believe play also has positive effects on the development of self-regulation skills in young children…
What Are The Differences Between A Vocabulary, A Taxonomy, A Thesaurus, An Ontology, And A Meta-model?
Meta-models and ontologies
A meta-model is an explicit model of the constructs and rules needed to build specific models within a domain of interest. A valid meta-model is an ontology, but not all ontologies are modeled explicitly as meta-models. A meta-model can be viewed from three different…