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Parenting in a Digital Age Part 3 with Dr. Bill St. Cyr Jun 06, 2019

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Modern technologies propagate a value system. Winners win and losers lose but is that a true statement?

Is the purpose of life. To make it to the one percent? Or would I or which would I rather have my child be? A neurotic performance-oriented performance driven member of the one percent. Or totally average in lifestyle but knows how to love his spouse and care for his children enjoys that which is good true and beautiful has a rich relationship with ideas and books as many friends and is a blessing to everyone in the neighborhood a quote winner one rich in the relation of life to set different value systems. Which do you want for your child?

Parenting in a Digital Age Part 2 with Dr. Bill St. Cyr May 30, 2019

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What's the most formative influence in that child's life. Is it parents? Is it teachers? I promise you it's the screens that's what's shaping the child's character. Every child is born knowing there are things worth having and things worth avoiding but they're absolutely clueless what those are. Their affections are set first by the parents, then by the tribe. What do you desire? Child What do you want? Those desire we're not random events. They were cultivated. And they were cultivated by somebody or some thing.And. It's a function of quality time. Whoever has the most quality time with the child gets to do the most shaping of the affections.

Parenting in a Digital Age Part 1 with Dr. Bill St. Cyr May 23, 2019

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Silicon Valley tech executives and engineers enroll their kids in no tech Waldorf schools. Google founders Sergei Brin and Larry Page went to no tech Montessori schools as did Amazon creator Jeff Bezos and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales many parents intuitively understand that the ubiquitous glowing screens are having a negative effect on kids.

What is Education? May 09, 2019

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Cholmondeley, Essex, What is Education? An address given to a meeting of the Women’s Institute. 1925.

Bringing Children up Towards Maturity May 02, 2019

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Parents and Teachers in Authority and Under Authority Apr 11, 2019

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Expectations for Children as Persons Mar 21, 2019

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Children as Persons and Parents in Authority Mar 14, 2019

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"The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine, to him that has a sense for the godlike.