Raising Children Without Breaking Them

Raising Children

What neuroscience, development, and emotional intelligence reveal about how children actually grow Between fear and performance pressure Parenting today often feels like standing between two loud and conflicting voices. One warns that ordinary mistakes are quietly damaging our children. The other insists that if we don’t optimize early enough—emotionally, cognitively, socially—we’ve already fallen behind. Caught … Read more

When Neuroscience Meets the Enneagram: Old Patterns, New Perspectives

neuroscience enneagram

New methods in neuroscience are uncovering what the Enneagram has been pointing to all along. I was reading this article in Neuroscience News about the Big Five personality traits being re-examined through a new data-driven method, and it got me wondering about the connection to the Enneagram. The Big Five (also called the Five-Factor Model … Read more