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If you think of it, children starting school this year will be retiring in 2065. Nobody has a clue,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

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If you think of it, children starting school this year will be retiring in 2065. Nobody has a clue,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

And the third part of this is that we've all agreed, nonetheless, on the really extraordinary capacities that children have -- their capacities for innovation.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

out of their creative capacities. Picasso once said this, he said that all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance every day to children the way we teach them mathematics.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

I think math is very important, but so is dance. Children dance all the time if they're allowed to, we all do. We all have bodies, don't we? Did I miss a meeting?

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

(Laughter) Truthfully, what happens is, as children grow up, we start to educate them progressively from the waist up.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

We have to rethink the fundamental principles on which we're educating our children. There was a wonderful quote by Jonas Salk, who said,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

for the richness they are and seeing our children for the hope that they are. And our task is to educate their whole being,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

More importantly, he told me to put the children's section as far away from the front door as

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

opportunity to catch her. Daniel talked a lot about the children's section, which was not a part of

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

That made sense. Small children coming to storytime, being read to, learning to read

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

What does that even mean? Well, reading to children the same way people read to us.

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

people read to us. You can buy books for children who are in title one schools who might not have

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

>> Because books are not the things endangering our children. >> >> And speak up for teachers and librarians

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

Then read books. Do you want your children to be readers? Then model that behavior.

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

I have two parents who are still alive. I have an amazing wife, three wondrous children and tons of really great friends and colleagues

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

I go to TikTok." So, if we want our children to be successful in the digital future,

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

seeing parents letting go and trusting their children to ride bicycles with their friends

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

Because when it comes to children, these companies have earned our distrust.

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

So, we're going to have to fight for a future in which our children can grow into flourishing, connected adults.

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

in good governance, whether you trust your police force, whether your children can walk to school safely, whether your dignity is preserved.

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

dignity, the future you want for your children. Because, you see, common ground does not begin with moral agreement --

The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED · TED

or do you hold back and avoid it? Jen and I had already adopted two children into our family, and so we had some sense of how this might go.

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

Jen and I boarded a flight to China with our four other children, where we were going to meet Lindsey,

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

of choking and suffocation. As young children, we start to move around more in our sleep, usually ending up on our sides and backs.

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Teenagers’ bodies wait to start releasing melatonin until around 11 p.m., which is two hours later than what we see in adults or younger children. This means that waking a teenager up at 6 a.m.

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

But these are problems we have to work through. They are not valid excuses for failing to do the right thing for our children, which is to start middle and high schools no earlier than 8:30 a.m.

What lack of sleep does to the teenage brain - Wendy Troxel

We was cash-poor but rich in culture and pride. My mother was a substitute teacher for disabled children. She sang for churches and did backup singing for extra cash.

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

in my own handwriting, scrawled my parents' names, my children's names, my wife's name. The people I was fighting for.

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as you mentioned at the introduction. We grew up together with all the children of Kosovo under a system of oppression,

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

at that time, just, you know, going out and playing as children meant that it was an act of quiet resistance. But at the same time, as a nation that today is thriving in many senses,

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

that I never forget that. That there is a child, there are millions of children around the world who are now listening to today's leaders,

What Kosovo Can Teach the World About Freedom | Vjosa Osmani Sadriu | TED · TED

Marriage in my teens, two or three children by the time I was just 20. It meant I would have no choice,

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

Granted, it's a confusing term because we use it to apply to everything from our spouses to our children to gluten-free snickerdoodles. But I am comfortable embracing the broadness of the term.

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

I don't mean that friendship doesn't happen organically in childhood, because for children it often does. And they have certain ingredients in their environment

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

where we are trying to experience sexuality in the long term not because we want 14 children, for which we need to have even more because many of them won't make it,

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship.

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

Instead, our stressors are "The," capital T, capital F, "Future," or our children, or a commute is, like, the classic example.

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So when we ask, "And how are the children?" Let’s make sure the answer isn’t “fine.”

Schools Urgently Need a Redesign. Here’s How | Aylon Samouha | TED · TED

Erica was just 27 years old, the mother of two children. She would be one of 137 Black women that day --

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

The impacts of stress on Black women who send their children and spouses out the door each day, unsure if they will come home alive;

The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Renae

how he and his wife, who also lived past 100, raised six children in a small, homey kitchen where I interviewed him.

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

In medicine, we call that crease the allergic salute. It's usually seen among children who have chronic allergies. It comes from chronically rubbing one's nose up and down,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

It's a beautiful scene, but it's shattered by the cries of a child, and actually several children, in need of rescue in the water. So you do hopefully what everybody would do.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

She's in the water. She's swimming away from them upstream, rescuing children as she goes, and they shout to her, "Where are you going?

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

and they shout to her, "Where are you going? There are children here to save." And she says back,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

"I'm going to find out who or what is throwing these children in the water." In healthcare, we have that first friend —

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

Let's say, for instance, let's try to help children who are bouncing in and out of the hospital

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

and the working conditions in your life. Perhaps, for children with asthma, it's what's happening in their home,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

Now all you have to do is get it out and fold it. But also you have three small children. And those three small children haven't given you a moment alone

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

But also you have three small children. And those three small children haven't given you a moment alone in quite some time.

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

I went to college started writing got married and had children I had what I now think of as a linear life then in my

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assembly line Piaget introduced the idea that children develop in stages Freud's as we go through psychosexual stages

Linear

in our lives from becoming an adult to having children to losing loved ones vanganep called these moments Rites of

Rites

even people who leave their relationship first if they have children often have to go back into that old room to be a parent

Superpower

(Cheers and applause) We had two amazing children. I wrote a book about my journey, "Chasing My Cure,"

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

they can and should be in Africa too. Schools are where children gather, where they spend most of their day. In fact, we have 600 million kids in Africa today.

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

and my firstborn son, Terrell, had just turned seven. Driven by the belief that our children would not inherit our conflicts, we took the call to peace to 16 more cities,

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

maybe we become run down from raising children or caring for aging relatives and want to do something for ourselves

Meaning

It can give you insomnia. It can harm children during pregnancy, you could have a baby who will have learning disabilities.

The Hidden Cost of Buying Gold | Claudia Vega | TED · TED

because I don’t want mines to be able to tell the difference between a school bus full of children and Russian armor.

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

it used to be and that cranks up the pressure to push children harder and harder kicking a ball around in the park with a

Family

be busy or to build the perfect college application if your children's schedule is routinely sending them and you into meltdown

Family

and create entirely new ones. The creation of nudes of real women and children used to humiliate or extort them.

How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED · TED

that this trajectory could lead to loss of control. Beside me in the car are my children, my grandson, my loved ones. Who is beside you in the car?

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

Today, with you, I'm betting on love. Love of our children can drive us to do remarkable things. Look at me here on this stage, I'm an introvert.

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

We can all get engaged to steer our societies in a safe pathway in which the joys and endeavors of our children will be protected. I have a vision of advanced AI in the future

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

instead of piling into cars local children now walk to school in A procession led by parent volunteers

Slow Spaces

How can we do it? It's a very simple method. It's so simple that it's actually what we were told as children when we learned to cross the street.

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

We went to the National Spelling Bee and tried to predict which children would advance farthest in competition. We studied rookie teachers working in really tough neighborhoods,

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED · TED

and conducts herself with professionalism and kindness. She's a wonderful parent who cares for her children, and she's very responsible when it gets to her finance and health.

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

And I was shocked. As the children would say, shooketh into disbelief. Oh, my goodness, it was my first time at the Emmys and I won.

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

She illustrated why it's so critical for young children of color to learn about their own history, and how when you expose children to new cultures and new experiences,

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

for young children of color to learn about their own history, and how when you expose children to new cultures and new experiences, ultimately they all feel more seen, more accepted.

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

We spend a lot of time teaching our children about strangers. What would happen if we spent more time teaching ourselves?

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

We're living in a culture that sidelines the creative act. That says it's something for children or something for the retired.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

if you're lucky enough to stumble on an effect that replicates around the world in children and adults alike, you start to wonder:

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because they were partners and shared the same critically important goal of promoting children's health. But I think UNICEF is just such a big, broad charity

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

For example, studies find that parents who spend more time parenting their children report more meaningfulness in life,

How to Live a Meaningful Life | Brian S. Lowery | TED · TED

So they put a lot more energy sometimes in that oldest child than they do with the subsequent children. And so there's this pressure to do very well.

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

you know, that knowledge, those skills, so everyone that children and young people and families would interact with in these systems —

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

They live in a big city, they have two children, they both work. Emily gets a job in a small town,

How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen

and they decide to move there together. And Deb quits her job to look after the children full-time. Deb leaves behind an extended family,

How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen

that the best way to address, we knew from science, that the best way to address the impacts of stress and trauma in children is a caring adult in their life.

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

and then used along with another form of chemotherapy decades ago. Turns out that a fraction of children have antibodies to prevent a vitamin from getting in their brain.

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

I could trace it to before that couple actually even committed. Before they married, before they had children. For example,

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

Now, as you can see, the children from the families where their parents had divorced were more than twice as likely to be divorced themselves

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

is equally impossible to limit to just the parents. And this is why having children is a big complication and a much bigger commitment than getting married.

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

incredible story, uh, several years back, and it was called How Children Lost the Right to Rome in four