The last episode in the curiosity series gets practical: What exactly can we do to raise curious kids?
Raising Freethinkers
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Curious science
As we prepare to see the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, here’s a love letter to knowledge for its own sake.
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Of curious women and dead cats
There’s one especially strange and disturbing character that pops up in religion and folklore around the world and throughout history: the curious and disobedient woman. It’s one example of a cultural trope you’ll need to push against if you want to raise curious kids, especially girls.
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The curious root of everything
Could I find one core value at the center of my parenting? I was curious.
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Pod help me, I’m doing all three shows
Reading Time: < 1 minute So crazy, it just might work.
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The Power of Two: How Shared Dissent Can Make All the Difference
Reading Time: 5 minutes Just one other person resisting the norm can help others with a minority opinion find their voices.
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Amazon.com(ments) — Part 2
Reading Time: 2 minutes Two years ago, after Raising Freethinkers had been out for a while, I posted about emails I’d been getting: One of the funniest recurring topics in my inbox concerns the reader reviews for Parenting Beyond Belief and Raising Freethinkers. The reviews are 95 percent good, a gratifying thing. Surprising, too — given the sensitive topic, […]
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The Social Network
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the real pleasures of being neck-deep in the freethought movement at the moment is how quickly the conversation is growing up. Not that it isn’t still fun and worthwhile to throw tomatoes at bad religion. But we’re also talking a lot more about building our own community, including — psst, here’s the grown-up […]
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PBB is dis many!
Reading Time: 2 minutes Parenting Beyond Belief was officially born five years ago today. Such a big girl! I didn’t even mention it when her little sister Raising Freethinkers turned three a few weeks ago. Second child, you know, whatever. Plus that birthday was in the middle of a four-month self-induced productivity coma after one of my busiest years […]
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6000 days
Reading Time: 4 minutes Part 3 of 3. Go to Part 1 or Part 2. The aim that the child should grow up to become confidently independent is synonymous with the aim that the child should grow up mentally healthy. Psychologist John Bowlby (1956) We’re born with brains wired up for the Paleolithic, not for the world as it […]