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Moral Adults: Moral Children

By Richard Weissbourd on November 9, 2009 in The Parents We Mean to Be

In the Brother's Grimm fairy tale, "The Old Grandfather and the Grandson," a young married couple has grown tired of the husband's father, who lives with them, and who has become increasingly feeble. They stop inviting him to the dinner table and begin feeding him small portions from a dishpan. Read More

There are few adults

Submitted by Anonymous on November 9, 2009 - 3:37pm.

We are mostly children regardless of our chronological years.
Even with a life well lived it takes a long time to develop
emotional maturity and wisdom.

I see a lot of brilliant humans graduating from College but
few have wisdom. That's ok, we are not supposed to at that age.

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Richard Weissbourd is a child and family psychologist on the faculty of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and School of Education.

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