This Is the 1 Factor That Matters Most for Raising Successful Kids, According to New Research
Being a parent these days often means running around like a lunatic trying to optimize a million factors related to your kids.
What diet is best? What preschool? What stroller? Are you reading to them enough? Discipling them correctly? And how much screen time is too much? Will you accidentally turn them into brats? Or center-less people pleasers? Or sad study drones?
No wonder so many well-intentioned parents are so burned out. But what if most of the questions you lose sleep and sanity over don’t really matter? And what if the one big question that actually does have a big impact on whether your kids grow up to be happy and successful rarely crosses your mind?
That’s the contention of a fascinating Atlantic article from data scientist and author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. In it, he argues that the research is clear: Parents are worrying about a ton of stuff that doesn’t matter and neglecting one factor that really does.
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The whole piece is well worth a read in full, but (spoiler alert) Stephens-Davidowitz’s basic argument goes like this: Rigorous twin studies comparing twins separated at birth by…
