Book: The grammar of fantasy

Never underestimate the educational role of utopia. We do not believe, no matter what, in a better future, who would have been forced to go to the dentist?

Kids love to solve problems that they can not accomplish. It is the only opportunity to grow.

Many of the so-called "children's mistakes" prove to be something quite different: an independent work by which children acquire unfamiliar realities.

Mother talking to a child who is not yet able to understand it, still doing useful work, not only because, being near him gives him a sense of security, warmth, but also because it gives food "needs to incentives". Often ingenious, poetic, maternal speech turns ordinary ritual of bathing, dressing, feeding in game: every move the mother accompanies some fiction, a saying. One of them told me that her son was very early learned to button a shirt, because for some time she wear it, repeated the story about the Button that was looking for his House and could not find him; when I finally got to the Door, I was happy-pregabalina.

Children need order and calm, the world does not need too often to go off the rails, on which the child so hard it sets up.

Familiarity with the rules of the game: "it is possible, and so it is impossible" - is the beginning of awareness by the child of the boundaries of their freedom, defined by life and society; it is one of the ways of introducing it to the team.