Tag: Parenting

MAKE OUR CHILDREN COHERENT AGAIN: A Regenerative Call to Action | ChatGPT4o

This manifesto calls for a cultural, institutional, and civilizational reckoning with the root cause of rising childhood illness, disconnection, and breakdown: the collapse of coherence. It is not just policies that have failed. We have lost rhythm, story, safety, and symbolic grounding.

Children are not malfunctioning. They are mirroring the systemic incoherence of the adult world — its fragmented food systems, toxic environments, overmedicalized paradigms, disembodied education, and storyless culture.

Rather than offering reforms, this manifesto proclaims a regenerative reorientation: placing the child at the center of all design, and coherence as the guiding principle of all healing, governance, and learning. Through the invocation of seven foundational principles — rhythm, relational safety, narrative integration, symbolic literacy, bioenergetic integrity, developmental intelligence, and institutional TATi design — this document outlines a moral, symbolic, and systemic realignment for those ready to rebuild the world from the child outward.

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Why Becoming a Good Parent Begins in Infancy: How Relationship Skills Are Developed throughout the Life Course | Edward L. Schor, MD

Learning social skills is a cumulative, lifelong task, the consequences of which can influence subsequent generations. These skills, built on temperamental differences observable early in infancy, are manifest in all stages of life, and they can be taught and reinforced at all ages and in numerous social settings. Social skill acquisition is profoundly important in attaining personal satisfaction in relationships and achieving success in many spheres of life, including parenting.

Learning effective social skills is strongly influenced by the circumstances in which social development occurs. Professionals, who are uniquely positioned to observe and help shape relationship skills, have a special responsibility to be aware of those educational opportunities and of the context in which relationship education of parents, children and youth is occurring. Policymakers should be attentive to the profound effects of their decisions on human relations and how policies and consequent programs can affect cooperation, collaboration and trust within communities. Read More