Summary of Jennifer Senior's All Joy and No Fun

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Minnesota’s Early Childhood Family Education program is extremely popular and unique to the state. It allows parents to leave their kids with professionals for 60 blissful minutes, when they become grown-ups again.
#2 Parenthood is the least happy period of adult life, according to studies. The autonomy that parents once took for granted has deserted them, and they are now burdened by children and a lack of freedom.
#3 Having children enlarges your life in innumerable ways, but it also disrupts your autonomy in ways you never anticipated. That’s where this book begins: with a dissection of those reconfigured lives and an attempt to explain why they look and feel the way they do.
#4 The most dreaded parental punishment is making parents sleep deprivation. But most parents have no idea which type they are until their kids come along: those who handle it fairly well, those who sort of fall apart, and those who respond catastrophically.

Sujets

• Family
• Marriage
• Sociology
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Social Science

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 05 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822500785
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Jennifer Senior's All Joy and No Fun
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Minnesota’s Early Childhood Family Education program is extremely popular and unique to the state. It allows parents to leave their kids with professionals for 60 blissful minutes, when they become grown-ups again.

#2

Parenthood is the least happy period of adult life, according to studies. The autonomy that parents once took for granted has deserted them, and they are now burdened by children and a lack of freedom.

#3

Having children enlarges your life in innumerable ways, but it also disrupts your autonomy in ways you never anticipated. That’s where this book begins: with a dissection of those reconfigured lives and an attempt to explain why they look and feel the way they do.

#4

The most dreaded parental punishment is making parents sleep deprivation. But most parents have no idea which type they are until their kids come along: those who handle it fairly well, those who sort of fall apart, and those who respond catastrophically.

#5

The emotional consequences of sleep deprivation are also powerful enough to have earned their own analysis. In a poll of parents, those who had six hours of sleep or less were in a different league of unhappiness than those who had seven hours of sleep.

#6

The most common urge parents try to fight is the urge to sleep. But what else do they try to fight. The most obvious answer is the urge to yell, which is equally as upsetting for parents.

#7

Children are sweet, beautiful, and adored, but they have all the characteristics that are identified as mad when they are found too brazenly in adults. Young children have too much desire and too little organization.

#8

The second danger of children’s excessiveness is that it can drive their parents crazy. Children’s desires, behaviors, and energies all become a threat to their parents’ well-ordered lives.

#9

Young children’s prefrontal cortexes are not yet fully developed, and they cannot conceive of a future. They live in the present, and this makes sense for them. But it is not practical for parents to do the same.

#10

The early years of family life don’t offer many activities that lend themselves to flow, a state of being in which we are so engrossed in the task at hand that we lose all sense of our surroundings.

#11

The Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has been studying flow for years. He has found that most flow experiences occur during situations that are goal-oriented and bounded by rules. Most activities that lend themselves to flow are designed to maximally engage our attention and expand our competence.

#12

The author found that most flow experiences happen apart from everyday life rather than in it. Raising children is everyday life. People have more control in specialized settings, even dangerous ones.

#13

Csikszentmihalyi said that it is harder to get into flow in family life than it is in work life, because family life is structured and relaxing, while work is not.

#14

Flow is difficult to achieve when you’re trying to care for your children and work at the same time. Many parents are struggling with this today.

#15

When we’re working from home, our nervous systems can become dysregulated. This is because email comes at unpredictable intervals, which is the most seductive and habit-forming reward pattern for the mammalian brain.

#16

Parents are constantly being pulled in multiple directions, and as a result, they feel a lot of guilt. They feel guilty about neglecting their children, their work, and even themselves.

#17

Jessie’s job is very mental. When she’s editing, she’s trying to make the pictures look magical without looking over-Photoshopped. But when her kids are overwhelming her, work is a big release.

#18

The question of how to balance work and family life is one that many women struggle with. It’s a difficult balance, and one that most people are simply trying to keep body and soul together.

#19

The American experiment has always been built on freedom, but the freedom to take off and go rock-climbing for the afternoon was not built into the private universes of anticipation of most people until very recently.

#20

The American dream is now about choice, and although that sounds great in theory, in practice, most of us are forced to live somewhere between the lives we want and the lives we have.