Warren Buffet's son, Peter, was only given a single piece of property as his inheritance even though his dad is worth billions! But Buffet is self-made and went by the slogan that your kids should get “enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.” The property was worth $90k and the younger Buffet sold it. If he had used the money to purchase his dad's stock, it would now be worth a whopping $72 million. Yet Peter Buffet says he doesn't regret for a moment his decision to use the money to follow his dream in music. He's now an Emmy Award-winning musician, composer and producer and has written a new book titled Life is What You Make It.
Stephen Goforth
Showing posts with label parenting. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, August 24, 2009
Parenting Advice
The billion-dollar industry of quote-unquote educational toys that are supposed to make your baby smarter is a boondoggle. There's no evidence that any of those things make a difference. Children are learning the way that other people's minds work, which is much more important to learn than even letters and numbers. I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
Alison Gopnik in an interview with TIME magazine about her book The Philosophical Baby
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