Perspective | How recognizing my child’s ‘tragic flaw’ made me a better parent

“Offstage, really build up the deposits in your emotional bank of sweet moments with your son. This will help you develop a sense of the big picture, and a sense that he’s going to be fine.” "For parents... the negativity bias is intensified by our determination to avoid mistakes, which often means “overlearning from the few things that go wrong, and not learning from the many things that go right. The good news, says Hanson, is that parents can train their brains to resist this bias." ~ Valuable read by Nicole Graev Lipson for the Washington Post. For more on this topic, read the API Principle on responding with sensitivity, https://www.attachmentparenting.org/principles/respond Hamlet’s thoughtfulness, Macbeth’s ambition, Juliet’s youthful idealism: All of these are admirable qualities. It’s only when they fall out of balance, or are misapplied, that things go awry.