Magical child : rediscovering nature's plan for our children.

Part 1 - The monstrous misunderstanding. 1 Promise given. 2 Matrix shifts. 3 Intelligence as interaction. 4 Stress and learning. 5 The new demonology. 6 Time bomb. 7 Breaking the bond. Part 2 - The world. 8 Concept. 9 Cycle of competence. 10 Establishing the matrix. 11 World as it is. 12 Filling in the details. 13 Division of labor. 14 Primary perceptions. 15 Play. Part 3 - Transforming the given. 16 Dancing through the crack. 17 The two-way flow. 18 Toward autonomy. 19 The cycle of creative competence. 20 Thinking about thinking. 21 Journey into the mind. 22 The second bonding. 23 Renewing the promise

'The material in this book has led me to a position so at odds with current opinion about the child mind and human intelligence that I have been at some loss to bridge the gap. At issue is a biological plan for the growth of intelligence, a genetic encoding within us that we ignore, damage, and even destroy. The mind-brain is designed for astonishing capacties, but its development is based on the infant and child constructing a knowledge of the world as it actually is. Children are unable to construct this foundation because we unknowingly inflict on them an anxiety-conditioned view of the world (as it was unknowingly inflicted on us). Childhood is a battleground between the bioloogical plan's intent, which drives the child from within, and our anxious intentions, pressing the child from without....' --Preface

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