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Danh ngôn của Alison Gopnik (Sứ mệnh: 7)

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.
Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.
The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys - won't do a thing to make your baby smarter. That's largely because babies are already as smart as they can be; smarter than we are in some ways.
If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old.