Raising Enlightened Children

Science provides games and play for children that will bias them toward discovery and exploration.

A game for children to learn focus.

Games for very young children to test their cognitive flexibility

A strategy for dealing with chidren, who lack the emotional regulation for logical thinking. Calm them by connecting to their feelings, and then attempt to rationalize with them.

Having children tell and re-tell stories of traumatizing experiences can help them understand and master their feelings of it.

An example of teaching a child how they can direct their attention at will.

Jonah Lehrer describes a characteristic of children who are later successful in life. They have much better self-control early in life, and they accomplish this by strategically allocating their attention elsewhere to avoid breaking the rules.

Don Tapscott on why you should let your kids teach you things.

In response to my question: "You're daughter Esther is one of the most incredibly inspiring women role models alive today. Do you have any parenting advice for those of out here with kids of our own who would like them to become similarly active, positive, and brilliant adults?"

Education must instill good habits in people while they are young so that the individual does not get hardened into an immoral state when they are older.

We are in the game, shouldn't we learn the rules?

Preach to them pleasure in work, its results, and its benefit to the community.

We should not force students to blindly recite laws and theorems because that would reduce it to religion.

From the sun to the ants that eat it.

Where the children run around mimicking the orbits of the planets and comets, making the solar system seem more chaotic than the classical perspectives.

At one house a second, it would take Santa three years to visit all the houses in America alone.

Some activities the author engages with his children to teach them self-control.

We have even institutionalized an environment of infancy for scientists in academia, where they are allowed to explore freely in general research, understanding that the discoveries made there may hold great benefits for the human race. This meme also suggests that free inquiry is an important aspect of raising children and maintaining an environment of free inquiry for parents is important as well.

The game forces children to focus and streamline their memory processes, resulting in an IQ increase of five points.

Where a child is taught to distinguish the individual sounds of the insects from the swarm and seek them out to identify by flashlight.

A good list of quotes, but kids probably won't get them.

A crucial adaptation for life in the sea.

A game Feynman played with his father, describing a fantastic scene, and the object of the game was to figure out where it was taking place and from what perspective.

A game Feynman's father would play with him, asking what made things work, and following the chain of energy back to the sun.