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Paddock wanted to kill a lot of people because he wanted to kill a lot of people.

— Adam Gopnik The Las Vegas Massacre Report and the Rise of Second Amendment Nihilism (2018)

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There appear to be as many learning styles among prodigies as there are prodigies to express them.

How to Raise a Prodigy (2018)

Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once.

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We disapprove of parental hovering not because it won’t pay off later—it might; it does!—but because it’s obnoxious now.

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We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.

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Teaching kids to become something other than what they were born to be is probably impossible; teaching them to behave in ways that seem unnatural to them at the start is actually not that hard.

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