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really wanted a girl so my parents who were on a waiting list got a call in the middle of the

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

papers she only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college this was the start

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

Stanford and all of my workingclass parents savings were being spent on my college tuition after 6 months I

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going to help me figure it out and here I was spending all the money my parents had saved their entire

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

do early in life W and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20 we worked hard and in 10 years Apple had

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

When she was at school, she was really hopeless. And the school, in the '30s, wrote to her parents and said, "We think Gillian has a learning disorder."

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

I want you to not think about the things you can't control. AI, politics, your parents, your social media feed, your Tinder alerts.

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

a lot of us just surrender to others or to other things. We say, well, we can't do that because of my parents, my childhood, my circumstances, my DNA, my crappy luck.

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

if you do things that would make you proud, your parents proud, your kids proud, your friends proud, you do that and then do it again,

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

real world, not by TikTok's algorithm. >> >> I imagine there's a lot of parents in the audience.

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

and I had two teenagers already at home. And he had lost his parents, it was a rough part of his life.

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

who lived in my hometown. I have two parents who are still alive. I have an amazing wife, three wondrous children

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

child. And of course, the parents are often busy.

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

But if the chatbot is super responsive, while the parents aren't as responsive, the child's attachment system, which is

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

chatbot, which is going to compromise their relationship with their own parents. So, here's the third principle of techno-skepticism.

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

And we're seeing parents letting go and trusting their children

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

attitude for people today, especially for parents and legislators. Because

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

who, to be honest, already had two very involved parents, they weren't really in need of a third.

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

Neither one is wrong. But I had a great model for this with my parents. When I was growing up,

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

And I could tell she was so nervous. Like I was about to reveal to her that my parents were secretly separated, and she just figured it out.

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

(Laughter) What's interesting is that her parents did go on to get divorced, and my parents stayed together for 23 years before my mom passed away.

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

What's interesting is that her parents did go on to get divorced, and my parents stayed together for 23 years before my mom passed away. Now do I think that’s due to them commuting separately?

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

I think I can comply with these very difficult treatments. I'm going to quit my job. I'm going to move in with my parents. I'm going to keep my baby safe."

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

The joy was there. But even with both of my parents working multiple jobs, it wasn't enough.

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

it became clear I was the one who could do it. I could do something I enjoyed and lift some weight off my parents. So we did it.

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

we had a car that worked, my parents weren't stressed about bills or their ability to get the best education for me and my three siblings.

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

may be keeping you from the very you you were always trying to save. My parents survived inside of systems that never fully saw them. Learning how to live instead of just surviving

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

grateful to say my parents showed me how to survive. I showed them how to dream,

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

remind the country of what it's about. I get to defend my parents' vision of America." (Cheers and applause)

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

And on the top of that, in my own handwriting, scrawled my parents' names, my children's names, my wife's name.

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

and help them solve a math problem. It was moments with parents. It was moments with their best friends

The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED · TED

from your childhood to the right to go to school, to your parents' right to go to work, at that time, just, you know,

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

In fact, my love of science itself began when my parents bought me a slime chemistry set and was then only enhanced

Why you should love gross science | Anna Rothschild

Singles give more time, they're more likely to care for elderly parents and disabled friends, more so than their non-single counterparts.

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

They're friends like these. Natasha and Linda are the first legally recognized platonic co-parents in Canada. And this is them with their teenage son on vacation.

Why Friendship Can Be Just As Meaningful as Romantic Love | Rhaina Cohen | TED · TED

Not your boss, not your parents, not your partner, not your kids. You.

What Successful Negotiators Do Differently | Kathryn Valentine | TED · TED

just ancient, fear-based neurotic programs, probably injected into me by the culture, by my parents. And they were trying to help me.

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

And they tell me about their cat group that they have for cat parents in the Drew. And I don't have a cat, but like,

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

Now, we were scrappy, but we just wanted to get coaches, athletes, parents, other medical professionals, all together

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

Certainly, we are all more than just workers. We’re parents and friends and citizens and artists and travelers and neighbors.

How to Reclaim Your Life From Work | Simone Stolzoff | TED · TED

and two men in black came to carry my father away. And I suddenly realized, as my parents’ only child, it was now all up to me to console my grieving mother,

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

was basically nonverbal for five years, and had never shared a complete thought or feeling with his parents, and was told by doctors that he probably would never share a feeling with them.

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

like Caitlin did and like Tara did, and like Mason's parents did, and heard the words "We've tried everything.

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

I was raised in a home where generosity was a way of life. My parents were health care workers and church leaders, and that meant they were always willing to help,

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

but it was often expensive and inefficient. Schools would often require parents to pay in advance, which was inconceivable for low-income families.

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

making it Kenya's most affordable and nutritious meal. Parents contribute a subsidized amount, and kids just tap to eat.

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

themselves meaning were fixed people tended to do what their parents wanted them to do believe what their

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wanted them to do believe what their parents wanted them to believe love who their parents wanted them to love

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parents wanted them to believe love who their parents wanted them to love today the dynamic has shifted

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Look at the reproduction rate in Asia, is essentially 1.0 for two parents. This is not good, right?

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

School and extracurriculars stressed out kids and parents alike and yet

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without the usual tug of war of kids dragging their heels and parents shouting hurry up

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how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, "How do I build grit in kids?

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

Shortly after launching my career, I sat down at a restaurant with my parents, Sri Lankan immigrants who came to the country poor,

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

My friend Evan told me that when he was a kid and his parents drove through this neighborhood, he would duck down in the back seat.

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

he would duck down in the back seat. But Evan's parents never would have guessed that when he grew up,

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

I remember when I wouldn't put my credit card on the internet because my parents had convinced me someone was going to read the number, and you had to fill out the form and then call them.

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They compromise sometimes. This holiday at my parents', the other one at yours. They sacrifice rarely.

The 6 Essential Ingredients of Loving Relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh | TED · TED

than in any language learned later in life. Now I grew up with the words “ich liebe dich” from my parents, so over the years of my life,

Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED · TED

They're things that many of our parents and grandparents did, and you can be sure that my son is

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Getting meaning doesn't necessarily feel that way. For example, studies find that parents who spend more time parenting their children

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

and I think sometimes with the oldest, parents, that's when they put their best foot forward, like they want to raise the next, you know,

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

would be almost like R and D for systems, right? So we're like, how can we learn from students, parents, teachers, if we're working deeply and long-term in communities?

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

do some things on their own the way most of today's parents and certainly the grandparents remember as kids what

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | 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

And the damage from a parental relationship breakdown is equally impossible to limit to just the parents. And this is why having children is a big complication

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

I think I can predict that most of you here had parents who chose each other on the basis of romantic love. I think I can more confidently predict

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

I think I can more confidently predict that you're probably not going to get those very same parents to choose your marital partner,

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

the the same Harris poll interviewed parents and what was it? It was 50% of

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

It was 50% of parents. No, when asked what would

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

and 50% of the parents said they were likely to be kidnapped.

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

overprotective parenting for for both parents and kids? >> Well, let's talk about kids first.

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

"Well, you know, well what did you tell your parents?" and she's like, "I didn't

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

and she's like, "I didn't tell my parents." And then when other

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

shower, you know, and and none of them had told their parents. And when I said

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

why, it was because they they didn't want their parents to know and then therefore take away their independence.

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

charts. So, I don't blame parents for being helicopters because the the

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

outside, you know, what is the what are the other parents going to think? Is it

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

home and do something new on your own with your parents' permission, but without your parents."

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

with your parents' permission, but without your parents." And then we give

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

them do it and all the kids are talking to each other and all the parents are talking to each other and you've

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

time. Parents today are spending way more time with their kids than our

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

more time with their kids than our parents spent with us because they think they have to be there to knit every

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

She says what advice do you have for parents who want to give their kids more freedom but maybe feel judged by other

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

freedom but maybe feel judged by other parents or or family members? How can

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

find a friend. Um I've heard of parents who like, you know, two women go and sit

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

do that with a little bit of planning with the other parents. >> I love all of these ideas.

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

And so maybe if you help the parents see without lecturing them, let like this free time

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

If you know, parents are very concerned about every aspect of their kids' lives.

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

as well as their independence and it turned out that um you know parents are very very concerned about phones and

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

and they want to restrict their screen use which a lot of parents do understandably um the the phrase that we use know

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

one of the things that has happened to parents is they've been told that their kids shouldn't ever be frightened.

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

had four families and he talked to each of the sets of parents first and found out what was bothering them most about

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

Anyways, when the next week comes for therapy, the kid comes with the parents and um Camilo normally would do

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

mention anything about the kid's deficit or the parents worry. Instead, he says,

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

the the benefits that you think exist for children and for parents to do this and and and you know, others in schools

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

opposed to a very locked down culture and and for the parents who are just so bored driving their kids everywhere.

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

childhood independence law that makes it legal for parents to let their kids go places alone.

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

Not anytime you take your eyes off them. And it's great for the freerange parents who want their kids to you know be

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED