Montessori Education is based on the principles developed by Maria Montessori. In 1907, she opened her first school for children of low-income workers in an apartment building in Rome. The school was called "Casa Dei Bambini",  Home for Children. The school had a teacher's table, a stove, a blackboard, chairs, group tables and a cabinet filled with materials that Maria developed in her earlier career.

Maria Montessori

Marie Montessori created materials when she noticed that students seemed to understand complex concepts better when they engaged all their senses. School activities included personal care, such as dressing and undressing, care of the environment like sweeping, dusting and gardening. The children could otherwise play with the materials provided.

Learning complex concepts

<ul><li>Children had episodes of deep concentration and several repetitions of the same activity.</li><li>Given a choice, children showed more interest in practical activities and materials than toys, sweets or other rewards.</li><li>Self-disciple emerged spontaneously.</li></ul>Montessori concluded that by working independently, children could become self-motivated learners. She started to see the role of the teacher as a facilitator in a prepared environment. The goal is to grow children to become independent and responsible adults.

Observations by Maria Montessori

Montessori's ideas started spreading through the world to inspire progressive thinkers and educators around the world.  Later alumni include Jimmy Wale from Wikipedia, author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Today, many educators use the insights and material inspired by Montessori. Some parents use it for homeschooling.

Montessori education produce successful adults

<ul><li>Students are free to choose what to learn.</li><li>Open classrooms allow free movement.</li><li>Use of specialised Montessori materials.</li><li>Mixed-age classes so children can learn from each other.</li><li>Uninterrupted blocks of study time, usually three hours.</li><li>No grading or homework.</li><li>Only help a child if they really can't succeed by themselves.</li></ul>

Characteristics of Montessori programs

To help us to make more such videos, visit http://www.patreon.com/sprouts Montessori Education is based on the principles developed by Maria Montessori, who opened her first school for children of low-income workers in an apartment building in Rome in 1907. The school was called “Casa Dei Bambini”, Home for Children. This first “Casa” was furnished with a teacher's table, a stove, a blackboard, some chairs, group tables for the children and a cabinet filled with materials that Montessori developed in her earlier career when she researched how to teach kids who experience some form of mental disability. Maria Montessori created the materials after she realized that students seem to understand complex concepts better when they engaged all their senses. Activities at this first school included personal care (such as dressing and undressing), care of the environment like sweeping, dusting and gardening. Otherwise, they were free to move around and play with the materials. Montessori did not teach herself but instead oversaw the classroom work of her teachers. Montessori observed that children showed episodes of deep concentration and multiple repetitions of the same activity. Given free choice, kids showed more interest in practical activities and the materials than normal toys, sweets or other rewards. Over time spontaneous self-discipline emerged. Montessori concluded that working independently children seemed to reach new levels of autonomy and become self-motivated learners. She began to see the role of the teacher as a facilitator of young human beings who are free to move and act within the limits of a prepared environment. The goal: to grow children to become independent and responsible adults who share a love for learning. Soon after Montessori herself and her ideas started traveling the world to inspired progressive thinkers and educators from all over. The inventors, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison, became early advocates. Later alumni include Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia, author Gabriel Garcia Marquez as well as the two Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Today the term “Montessori” stands more for a method, than a school itself. The fact that it can be used freely by anyone led to a great variation of schools. Educators all over the world borrow Montessori's name, insights, and materials to organize kindergartens, elementary schools, special needs programs, or even full 12-year curriculums. Some parents use it for homeschooling. The following characteristics are shared among most programs: - Students are free to choose what to learn - Open classrooms that allow free movement - Use of specialized Montessori materials - Mixed-age classes (from 0-3, 3-6 or 6-12) so children can learn from each other - Uninterrupted blocks of study time, usually three hours - No grading or homework - and a trained teacher Maria Montessori once famously said: “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”What are your thoughts on Montessori? Please share your opinions in the comments below!

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Montessori Education is based on the principles developed by Maria Montessori, who opened her first school for children of low-income workers in an apartment building in Rome in 1907. The school was called “Casa Dei Bambini”, Home for Children.

This first “Casa” was furnished with a teacher's table, a stove, a blackboard, some chairs, group tables for the children and a cabinet filled with materials that Montessori developed in her earlier career when she researched how to teach kids who experience some form of mental disability. 
Maria Montessori created the materials after she realized that students seem to understand complex concepts better when they engaged all their senses.

Activities at this first school included personal care (such as dressing and undressing), care of the environment like sweeping, dusting and gardening. Otherwise, they were free to move around and play with the materials. Montessori did not teach herself but instead oversaw the classroom work of her teachers.

Montessori observed that children showed episodes of deep concentration and multiple repetitions of the same activity. Given free choice, kids showed more interest in practical activities and the materials than normal toys, sweets or other rewards. Over time spontaneous self-discipline emerged.

Montessori concluded that working independently children seemed to reach new levels of autonomy and become self-motivated learners. She began to see the role of the teacher as a facilitator of young human beings who are free to move and act within the limits of a prepared environment. The goal: to grow children to become independent and responsible adults who share a love for learning.

Soon after Montessori herself and her ideas started traveling the world to inspired progressive thinkers and educators from all over. The inventors, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison, became early advocates. Later alumni include Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia, author Gabriel Garcia Marquez as well as the two Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Today the term “Montessori” stands more for a method, than a school itself. The fact that it can be used freely by anyone led to a great variation of schools. Educators all over the world borrow Montessori's name, insights, and materials to organize kindergartens, elementary schools, special needs programs, or even full 12-year curriculums. Some parents use it for homeschooling.


The following characteristics are shared among most programs:

- Students are free to choose what to learn
- Open classrooms that allow free movement
- Use of specialized Montessori materials 
- Mixed-age classes (from 0-3, 3-6 or 6-12) so children can learn from each other
- Uninterrupted blocks of study time, usually three hours
- No grading or homework
- and a trained teacher

Maria Montessori once famously said: “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”What are your thoughts on Montessori? Please share your opinions in the comments below!

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When you say "Good Job" to a child, what you are doing is increase your love for the child in that  particular situation. This is chain into "I like you because you did such- and such". Which will be perceived as My Dad loves me because I do such and such. which also means that "My dad won't love me if I don't do like that." You may say that you are only praising not saying those words but good job. But it isn't about what you give, it's about what the child receives. Hence, it can be proved that Praising is a direct aspect of conditional parenting.

No to praise

A research by Mary Ruddy in 2013 found that children who were frequently praised by their teachers often answered in a question tone of voice(Um, Photosynthesis?). They were less likely to share their ideas or stick with a task once they started. And they often backed off from something they had proposed about as soon as the teacher disagreed from them.

One reason they’re so harmful has to do with the child’s experience of feeling controlled. And it works the other way around, too: When we use punishments and rewards and other strategies to manipulate children’s behavior, they may come to feel they’re loved only when they conform to our demands.The dominant problem with parenting in our society isn’t permissiveness, but the fear of permissiveness.A lot of parents act as though they believe that kids don’t deserve respect in the way adults do.Some parents hit, some scold, some use guilt, some criticise, some use other techniques.

Too Much Control

almost everyone gives in to the impulse to overcontrol, at least on occasion. Some do so as a result of their conviction that children must learn to do what they’re told (and, after all, adults know better than kids, don’t they?). It’s easy for most of us to observe Bad Parenting on Parade, to watch people who are much more controlling than we are, and to take comfort from saying, “At least I’d never do that.” But the real challenge is to reflect on the things we have been known to do and ask whether they’re really in our children’s best interest.

On balance, the kids who do what they’re told are likely to be those whose parents don’t rely on power and instead have developed a warm and secure relationship with them. They have parents who treat them with respect.One reason that a heavy-handed is that, in the final analysis, we really can’t control our kids—at least, not in the ways that matter. It’s very difficult to make a child eat this food rather than that one, or pee here rather than there, and it’s simply impossible to force a child to go to sleep, or stop crying, or listen, or respect us.

Which kids do what they're told?

study focused on preschoolers who had been identified as defiant. Their mothers were asked to play with them as they usually did, while others were trained to “engage in any activity to allow the child to control the nature and rules of the interaction.” They were asked to refrain from commanding, criticizing, or praising. (Notice that praising was included). After the play sessions, the mothers issued a series of commands to their children having to do with putting away each of the toys. The result: Children who had been subject to less control were more likely to follow their instructions.9

Study #1

The controlling parenting leads the child to excessive compliance where the child obeys the commands and honor his parent. Seems good, aye? It has been found that these children pay a price the self confidence area of their life. They seem to interact less with their peers and never gain self-esteem. These are the children who later in their lives become “yes-men” in the office, those deferential employees who never disagree with the boss.

Excessive Compliance

There’s something paradoxical about the fact that it’s those parents who are most concerned about controlling their children who may end up having the least control over them. Far more significant is the fact that this power-based approach isn’t just ineffective—it’s also terribly damaging, even when it appears to work.So it is when parents insist on absolute control. Some of these children become excessively compliant, and others become excessively defiant. Let’s consider each of these reactions in turn.

Opposite Extremes

When we command a child to do something by for, this often generates anger in them. Just that they don;t show anger at that time doesn't mean it is disappeared. They rebel everything and anything. They earn to empty this anger on us, where have they learnt this anger? From us. Parents who don't even allow to show this anger from the child, make their children double-lived. They are cute and obedient in front of their parents but behind their backs they become absent brainy hooligans. These are also the kids that communicate wit their peers aggressively and defiantly.

Excessive Defiance

It's very crucial to understand the consequences of too much control. <ul><li>Food-the children of those parents who insisted them to eat or wash plates when they were not hungry or even use dessert as a treat to eat more, often most their senses of the food calories intake. Basically, more of them became fat.</li><li>Morals-these children have their morals externally controlled. The less chance they have to make decisions about the right way to act, the more likely they are to act in ways that will cause their parents to cite their irresponsibility as a reason for continuing to deny them the right to choose.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Interest-while playing with toys, some children were told by their parents to put that block there etc. These children, in absence of their parents seemed to lose interest comparatively to the children who were free to explore the toys even in front of their parents.</li><li>Skills-conditional parenting even hampers how much proficient the child is.third-graders and their parents worked together on a couple of projects that resembled homework , after which each child was left alone and asked to do similar tasks. Those whose parents had been more controlling didn’t do as well on their own.</li></ul>

Grolnick summarizes a great deal of other research showing that “controlling parenting has been associated with lower levels of intrinsic motivation, less internalization of morals, poorer self-regulation, side effects for the parent-child relationship. These issues relate not only to children’s development and well-being but also to their success as happy, adults.” while children have different needs at different ages, the effects of much control are damaging no matter how old they are. While parenting styles clearly vary across race, and culture, too control seems to have negative effects.

If punishment is so effective, how come I have to keep doing it to my child over and over?Researchers found that punishment is ineffectual over the long term as a technique for eliminating the kind of behavior toward which it is directed and the parents who punish[ed] rule-breaking behavior in their children at home often had children who demonstrated higher levels of rule-breaking when away from home.Punishment doesn't mean only spanking or slapping (physical); it includes even time-outs(emotional), threats(mental).

Punitive Damages

Sometimes, parents are told to use time-outs instead of spanking. The reality is that both of these tactics are punitive. They differ only with respect to whether children will be made to suffer by physical or emotional means.Another version of Punishment is known as “natural consequences,” which invites parents to discipline by by refusing to help. If the child forgets raincoat in school, let him get wet tomorrow. This is said to teach her to be more punctual, or less forgetful. But the far more powerful lesson that she’s likely to take away is that we could have helped— but didn’t.

Versions of punishment

No matter how many times we have seen our kids lashing out in anger or pain or making no improvements after punishing, we assume that the only response to this, is to punish-again. Research finds the worst effects aren’t due to the parent’s initial intervention but rather to the use of punishment after the child fails to comply with the first request.Though, the more vicious cycle is held over the years, when we punish the child, he becomes a defiant adolescent, and we ground him etc. The more this strategy fails, the more we assume the problem is with child, rather than with strategy itself.

Vicious cycle

“Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other; on the contrary, they breed and reinforce each other.”

<ul><li>It makes people mad.- the use of punitive consequences often enrages whoever is on the receiving end, and the experience is doubly painful because he or she is powerless to do anything about it.</li><li>It models the use of power.- Punishment teaches children a way of solving problems- POWER. They may or may not earn the lesson we supposed to teach them but they WILL learn that when the most important people in their lives, their role models, have a problem, they try to solve it by using power to make the other person unhappy so he or she will be forced to capitulate.</li></ul>

Why Punishment Fails

<ul><li>It eventually uses its effectiveness. We increase the intensity of punishment when they turn from toddler to teen, this suggests that trying to help kids become good people by punishing them for doing bad things is a foolish strategy from the beginning. The inevitable result of consistently employing power to control kids when they are young is that you never learn how to influence.”</li><li>It distracts kids from important issues. When we give time-outs, they don't think why did they do get punished etc; they think how mean their parents are how they can get away with the punishment. Simply, by lying.</li></ul>

<ul><li>It erodes our relationships with kids.- They think: I’m not sure I can trust them or feel completely safe with them. I’d be pretty stupid to admit to them that I’m angry, or that I did something bad, because I’ve learned that I might be given a time-out or even smacked. I’d better keep my distance.</li><li>It makes children more self-centered.- When punished, they think what do we want them to be. It doesn't lead them to think the consequences of their actions on others. (They may weigh the risks of being punished against the pleasures of doing whatever it is they’re not supposed to do.)</li></ul>

This is the whole continuum we need to avoid. Even if this is mixed with good parenting, it cancels out the effects of it and leads to bad parenting. Here you can't say "More the merrier"

Whole System To Avoid

Children are pressured to be good, achieve more, be excellent, have a good time table etc. Well, these are the same children who become drunkards or depressed in the future because they just can't handle the stress. But there is an even harmful thing than this-competition. "Be superior to your peers, they are an obstacle to your success. The world is a race and everyone kills each other. you have to stand different." These children have their self-esteem suffer on this. "Oh, so I can get hugs and smiles only when I get this grade in my report card, ok then I will work like a wild ass from now"

Pushed To Succeed

The more the parents focus on the higher grades of their children, the lesser will the child love learning. This has been studied many and many times. In schools, when we are given homework and told that they hold the marks for our report card, we choose the easiest way possible. We choose the shortest novel or the simplest decorations possible for our projects. This is not us being not creative; we are rational. If we are encouraged by our teachers for the love of learning and excitement to do the project, we would love school and the learning it gives us, instead of hating it for the marks.

At school

Some parents use love, affection and approval as a lever t lift their child to get A's to the point that their children may come to feel as though their parents’ positive feelings for them rise and fall with their grade point average.  These children live most of their time being afraid of letting their parents down. also these kids can choose "self handicapping", in which they may cease the effort to score grades so that when they achieve low grades, they can say that if they would have studied their result would be much better proving how much 'intelligent' they are.

There are parents who literally control their children's lives, and they choose in which sport he or she will be going, for competition or for fun. Some say,"we just tell our kid to do his best." The author replies that doing his best is far away from doing just fun, and do the arents of these children react the same when the child says he did his best that day as compared to when he gets a trophy?All of this has conditioned the kids to thinking that sports is where you have to make everyone fail to win and you must compete.

At Play

competition holds people back from working or learning at their best.  Cooperation makes more sense than competition if we care mostly about bottom-line results, just as it does if our prime concern is how people feel about themselves and those around them.Some people believe that fear of failing helps us to succeed. Well, even if we believe that they will rise up and start their journey again if they fail, it is not necessary that they will. Often, children are so much occupied trying to recover from failure that they can't start succeeding. Fear of failure, instead, is an obstacle to success

Competition

We control so much because-<ol><li>what we see and hear- we see our parents, neighbors, doctors, doing overcontrol, so we think that it would be better because everyone's in it.</li><li>what we believe- our beliefs of regards, capabilities, competition, religion, justice affect our actions.</li><li>what we feel- we impart on our children what we were imparted. we scold or praise them on occasions on which we were scolded or praised because we respect our parents.</li><li>what we fear- our fears of parental inadequacy, powerlessness, being judged, children's safety, babying, permissiveness.</li></ol>

Why we do what we do?

treat them as people whose feelings and desires and questions matter. A child’s preferences can’t always be accommodated, but they can always be considered and they need never be dismissed out of hand. It’s important to see a child as someone with a unique point of view, with very real fears and concerns and with a distinctive way of reasoning.In this chapter there will not be step-to-stp things like what to do in this or that situation, here w will know the principles of unconditional parenting, like a baker's dozen building guide.

Unconditional Parenting

1.Be reflective.2.Reconsider your requests.3.Keep your eye on your long-term goals.4.Put the relationship first.5.Change how you see, not just how you act.6.R-E-S-P-E-C-T.7.Be authentic.8.Talk less, ask more.9.Keep their ages in mind.10.Attribute to children the best possible motive consistent with the facts.11.Don’t stick your no’s in unnecessarily.12.Don’t be rigid.13.Don’t be in a hurry.

The Principles

Try to figure out what may be driving your parenting style. The more transparent you are to yourself—the better you come to understand how your own needs and experiences affect the way you act with your children (such as what drives you crazy and why)—the more likely it is that you’ll improve. Be honest with yourself about your motives. Don’t stop being troubled by things you do that really are troubling. And be alert for signs that the way you interact with your children may have drifted toward a controlling style without your even being aware of it.

1. Be reflective

Perhaps when your child doesn’t do what you’re demanding, the problem isn’t with the child but with what it is you’re demanding. It is worth asking that what we're demanding is really needed to be done or even can be done by your child. If we’re giving children reasonably healthy meals, is it necessary to force them to eat something? why does the only place in the world that is truly a child’s own have to be maintained according to the parents? before searching for some method to get kids to do what we tell them, we should first take the time to rethink the value or necessity of our requests.

2. Reconsider Your Requests

Keep you long term goals in your mind. What you want him to be in future, a man who is appreciated and thanked for what he does occasionally or when he obeys or you want him to be thanked for his personality and himself.Keep your relationship first. Is it good enough to scold your child so that he sleeps? It is more important than even your relationship? Change how you see, not just how you act. Whenever the child does something 'bad', don't think it is something to be punished; see it as a teachable moment.Respect your child. Respect his opinions, fears, actions, decisions. Respect forrespect

3,4,5,6

Be authentic. Your child need to know that his parents are human beings, not perfections. Tell them the truth wherever needed. Show them mistakes can be done by anyone. The author suggests to say sorry to your child at least twice a month.Talk less, ask more. You agree that democracy is better than dictatorship. Apply this to your child. Ask him if we wants to sleep, to eat, to go inside or not. Avoid asking like 'Why can't you just stop right there? Can't you understand?" These question are harmful. Ask him for his actions and his wish to do them.

7, 8

Keep his age in mind. Distracting a 3 y old to something else to remove a thing that may harm him, like a knife, from his hands is ok. But not to a 7 yr od. Imagine saying 'Look an aeroplane' and then snatch the hone away from him and saying 'the dog took it'. Doesn't make sense. All strategies are age-sensitive.

9, 10

ATTRIBUTE TO CHILDREN THE BEST POSSIBLE MOTIVE CONSISTENT WITH THE FACTS. When the child does something that has a negative effect, doesn't mean that he had a negative motive. Suppose a child throws something, (not to make mommy miserable); maybe he was testing how things fall, or the sound which comes It is important to understand that children's motives are not necessarily negative. It is you you thinks they are. But surely if a teenager kicks someone on the face doesn't mean they didn't mean to cause harm. That is yhy you must think for the best possible motive consistent with the facts.

Don't stick in your no's. Think upon the reason you are saying yes or no. There will always be times when you can teach the child that everything he says can't come come to him. But as far as your convenience and child's harm is concerned, say yes. Whenever you say either yes or no, just think upon the reason. Why do you need to say no or even accept the child's offer to play outside rather than inside?

Don't be rigid. Let them be flexible. Do not this that there are infractions to be punished; think they are problems to be solved. It is a lot more easier to be flexible when you know there's no penalty you will be given. The absence of punishment also frees up parents to respond differently to each of their children without stirring up angry charges of favoritism. Mom and Dad should not act as a united team against the child. It i good to show children that adults sometimes disagree but the matters can be solved with respect and sometimes compromise.

Don't be in a hurry. Don't rush your child through the supermarket. Think of the times when you do not need to rush. Think your time table with your child. Do you need to wake up 15 min early or sleep 15 min late? This time will pass too. Don't hurry this child to teen.

Perfect unconditional parenting is almost improbable, because there are times when we may slip our tongue or hand over our kid; but this should not stop us from trying to be mostly unconditional. Perfect happiness is not possible too, but this fact doesn't top us from being happy. Being unconditional doesn't mean taking your hands-off your child; it is an active role in child's life too.

Love without strings attached

<ol><li>The first step is simply to be mindful of the whole issue of unconditional parenting.</li><li>Second, we need to get in the habit of asking ourselves a very specific question: “If that comment I just made to my child had been made to me—or if what I just did had been done to me—would I feel unconditionally loved?”</li><li>we have to communicate that we love them even when we’re not thrilled with what they’re doing.</li></ol>

Approaching unconditionality

Parents who find unacceptable a great many things that their children do or say will inevitably foster in these children a deep feeling that they are unacceptable as persons.

<ol><li>Limit number of criticisms.</li><li>Limit intensity of each criticism.</li><li>Limit scope of each criticism. Even when kids do rotten things, our goal should not be to make them feel bad, nor to stamp a particular behavior out of existence. Rather, what we want is to influence the way they think and feel, to help them become the kind of people who wouldn’t want to act cruelly.</li></ol>Be the parent does not mean to put your foot on the neck of the kid (metaphorically saying), it means to rise above the temptation of a childish quid pro quo:“ if you’re not going to do your chores, then I’m not going to give you dessert”

What to Minimize

To be a parent means you have some obigations. The author's wife makes nutritious meals keeping the kids' preferences in mind. That's all they can do; no matter how many meals end up in garbage, that's all they have to keep doing. Same is with unconditional love. No matter even if your efforts go unappreciated, you have to keep doing them. Even the slightest indication that you are withholding love from your child has a far greater impact than a screamed “I hate you!” has (or ought to have) on you.

They help me develop good parenting habits.

The author of Punished by Rewards and The School Our Children Deserve builds on his parenting theories of working with children rather than trying to control them, argues against practices that teach children that they must earn a parent's approval, and presents techniques that promote desired child qualities through unconditional support. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

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A groundbreaking approach to parenting by nationally-respected educator Alfie Kohn that gives parents “powerful alternatives to help children become their most caring, responsible selves” (Adele Faber, New York Times bestselling author) by switching the dynamic from doing things to children to working with them in order to understand their needs and how to meet them. Most parenting guides begin with the question “How can we get kids to do what they're told?” and then proceed to offer various techniques for controlling them. In this truly groundbreaking book, nationally respected educator Alfie Kohn begins instead by asking, “What do kids need—and how can we meet those needs?” What follows from that question are ideas for working with children rather than doing things to them. One basic need all children have, Kohn argues, is to be loved unconditionally, to know that they will be accepted even if they screw up or fall short. Yet conventional approaches to parenting such as punishments (including “time-outs”), rewards (including positive reinforcement), and other forms of control teach children that they are loved only when they please us or impress us. Kohn cites a body of powerful, and largely unknown, research detailing the damage caused by leading children to believe they must earn our approval. That's precisely the message children derive from common discipline techniques, even though it's not the message most parents intend to send. More than just another book about discipline, though, Unconditional Parenting addresses the ways parents think about, feel about, and act with their children. It invites them to question their most basic assumptions about raising kids while offering a wealth of practical strategies for shifting from “doing to” to “working with” parenting—including how to replace praise with the unconditional support that children need to grow into healthy, caring, responsible people. This is an eye-opening, paradigm-shattering book that will reconnect readers to their own best instincts and inspire them to become better parents.

Alfie Kohn

<ul><li>Companies are continuing to invest in technology to run their businesses.</li><li>Now, they are layering more systems into their IT networks to support remote work, enhance the customer experience, and generate value, all of which creates potential new vulnerabilities.</li><li>Even today's most sophisticated cybercontrols, no matter how effective, will soon be obsolete.</li><li>The solution is to reinforce their defenses by looking forward-anticipating the emerging cyber threats of the future and understanding the slew of new defensive capabilities that companies can use today.</li></ul>

Cybersecurity: A Never-Ending Race

Mobile platforms, remote work, and other shifts increasingly hinge on high-speed access to large data sets, increasing the likelihood of a breach
To execute these business models, companies need new technology platforms, including data lakes that can aggregate information

Growth of On-Demand Access to Ubiquitous Data/information Platforms

<ul>
<li>Today, cyberhacking is a multibillion-dollar enterprise, complete with institutional hierarchies and R&D budgets.</li>
<li>Attackers use advanced tools.</li>
<li>Ransomware as a service and cryptocurrencies have substantially reduced the cost of launching ransomware attacks, which have doubled each year since 2019.</li>
</ul>

Hackers Getting Smarter And Resourceful

Cyber risk management has not kept pace with the proliferation of digital and analytics transformations, and many companies are not sure how to identify and manage digital risks.
At the same time, companies face stiffer compliance requirements-a result of growing privacy concerns and high-profile breaches.

Increasing Regulations and Continued Gaps in Resources, Knowledge and Talent

Mitigating the cybersecurity risks of on-demand access to ubiquitous data requires four cybersecurity capabilities: zero-trust capabilities, behavioural analytics, elastic log monitoring, and homomorphic encryption.

Building Over-The-Horizon Defensive Capabilities

Shifts the focus of cyberdefense away from the static perimeters around physical networks and toward users, assets, and resources, thus mitigating the risk from decentralized data.

Zero-Trust Architecture (ZTA)

Behavioural analytics can monitor attributes such as access requests or the health of devices and establish a baseline to identify anomalous intentional or unintentional user behaviour or device activity.

Behavioural Analytics 

Elastic log monitoring for large data sets allows companies to pull log data from anywhere in the organization into a single location and then to search, analyze, and visualize the data in real-time.

Elastic Log Monitoring

Homomorphic encryption allows users to work with encrypted data without first decrypting to give third parties and internal collaborators safer access to larger data sets and meet more stringent data privacy requirements

Homomorphic Encryption

To counter more sophisticated attacks driven by AI and other advanced capabilities, organizations should take a risk-based approach to automation and automatic responses to attacks.
<ul>
<li>Automation should focus on defensive capabilities like security operations centre (SOC) countermeasures and labour-intensive activities.</li>
<li>Use of defensive AI and machine learning for cybersecurity.</li>
<li>Technical and organizational responses to ransomware.</li>
<li>The level of digitization accelerates, and organizations can use automation to handle lower-risk and rote processes, freeing up resources for higher-value activities.</li>
</ul>

Using Automation to Combat Increasingly Sophisticated Cyberattacks

<ul>
<li>Secure software development.</li>
<li>Have security and technology risk teams engage with developers at all times.</li>
<li>Software bill of materials.</li>
<li>Mitigate the administrative burden by formally detailing all components and supply chain relationships used in the software.</li>
<li>Take advantage of X as a service.</li>
<li>Infrastructure and security as code.</li>
<li>Standardizing and codifying infrastructure and control-engineering processes can simplify the management of hybrid and multi-cloud environments.</li>
</ul>

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Good digital hygiene really is its own form of civil defense.<ul><li>Ask yourself 3 questions when strange emails arrive, and the answer is supposed to be yes to all of them: Is it from someone I know? Is it what I was expecting? Is it in the format I was expecting?</li><li>Use the 3-2-1 plan for backups: Three copies of any essential data in two different formats or types of storage media, with one of them in a cloud.</li><li>Update the operating systems on your devices, or better yet, enable automatic updates. </li><li>Write down, screenshot or photograph essential street addresses and phone numbers, just in case.</li></ul>

Defending (and Duplicating) Your Data

<ul><li>Flashlights for every person in the house, fresh batteries every so often, candles and matches, solar-powered sources for small devices, portable power stations, and backup generators if you can afford and find one. Not letting your car’s gas tank sit at half-empty or below is always a good idea, too.</li><li>Setting aside a small pile of emergency cash makes sense only if you will remember where you put it. </li><li>Share the location with someone you trust.</li><li>A few jugs of water are never a bad idea.</li></ul>Stay calm. It’s easier to be calm if you’ve done a little bit of preparation.

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DEPENDING ON WHEN you were born, there’s a good chance you’ve spent either several decades online or have never known an offline world. Whatever the case, the internet and its advertising giants know a huge amount about your life.Amazon, Facebook, and Google all have reams of data about you—including your likes and dislikes, health information and social connections—but they’re not the only ones. Countless murky data brokers that you’ve never heard of collect huge quantities of information about you and sell it on.

Your Identity On The Internet

At this stage it’s going to be very difficult to completely delete yourself from the internet, but there are some steps you can take to remove a lot of it. Removing personal information and deleting accounts is a fiddly process, so it’s better to break it down into a few smaller steps and tackle them over time.

Deleting Yourself From The Web

Collecting and selling your data is big business. In 2019 the US state of Vermont passed a law requiring all companies buying and selling third-party personal information to register: In response, more than <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90310803/here-are-the-data-brokers-quietly-buying-and-selling-your-personal-information">120 firms logged their details</a>. They included companies building search tools to look up individuals, firms handling location data, and those specializing in your health data. These companies collect everything from your name, address, and date of birth to your social security number, buying habits, and where you went to school and for how long.

Data Brokers

Among the biggest data brokers are Acxiom, Equifax, Experian, Oracle, and Epsilon. Some, but not all, data brokers let people opt out of having their personal information processed—this also depends on where you are in the world. You’ll often have to contact them via email, fill in online forms, and provide extra identification information.Privacy-focused group <a href="https://yourdigitalrights.org/data-brokers">YourDigitalRights has created opt-out forms</a> for 10 of the biggest data brokers to speed up the process of getting your information deleted. It’s probably best to start opting out of the biggest companies first.

Getting Rid Of Data Brokers

You can’t change the way that Google displays its search results, but there are some limited steps you can take to make sure that what’s displayed is up to date and to remove harmful details, such as doxing attempts. If a web page has been updated by its owner but it isn’t reflected in Google’s search results, you can use its tool to remove outdated content. Google will <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7041154">update its search results</a> for pages that no longer exist or are significantly different to the versions it has indexed previously.

Get Google Search Results Updated

Right to be Forgotten is a principle that was established in European courts in 2014 and was incorporated into GDPR in 2018. This allows certain specific information to be removed from search results, <a href="https://support.google.com/legal/answer/10769224?hl=en">including Google</a>, when relevant criteria are met. Generally, if information about you is in the <a href="https://www.farrer.co.uk/news-and-insights/removing-your-information-from-google-search-results-what-is-the-right-to-be-forgotten/">public interest</a> then it will be very difficult to get it removed from search results.

The Right To Be Forgotten

if you really want to minimize your online presence then you need to track down those old Myspace and Tumblr accounts and remove all traces of them. You need a desktop—and a good chunk of time.Start by making a list of all the old accounts you remember using—email addresses and usernames you’ve used can be helpful—and then work through them one by one. For each, you’ll need to sign in or recover the account and navigate through the deletion process.Justdelete.me has a list of links that point to the deletion pages of everything from Gumtree to Vimeo.

Delete Old Online Accounts

You should also search for your name online and combine it with some other pieces of personal data—for instance your email address or where you live—to see what comes up. If you’re diving deep into your online history and attempting to remove old posts on forums or similar services you may have to email web administrators. If the contact details aren’t clear, as might be the case with really old pages, one starting point is to check the web registration details through a <a href="https://who.is/">WHOIS lookup</a>.

Google Your Name

Even if you’re not deleting your online accounts you can still clean up what data you store online. It’s likely your email account contains thousands of old messages (and attachments) dating back years; your Facebook and Twitter accounts might still have posts on them that you’d rather didn’t resurface publicly.

Clean Up Your Digital History

If you’re using Gmail you can bulk-delete old messages by using the search command “older_than:” and adding a time period (1y or 6m, for instance), and then selecting all messages and deleting them.

Those Gmail Messages

Publicly posted data—either photos or text—is obviously far more likely to be found by others. If you’re considering taking the plunge and deleting your current profiles or existing posts, consider downloading and backing up your posts first. Almost all major social media platforms have backup options in their settings.

Those Public Facebook Posts

Twitter doesn’t have any tools to easily delete all your old tweets in bulk, but third-party services do. Both <a href="https://tweetdeleter.com/">Tweet Deleter</a> and <a href="https://tweetdelete.net/">TweetDelete</a> will get rid of your old tweets. If you’re deleting in bulk, both services can be a little glitchy when handling years of data. Forking out TweetDeleter’s monthly $5.99 cost—you can cancel after one month—may be worth it to delete an unlimited number of tweets at once. Keep in mind that by allowing any third-party service access to your online accounts, they may be able to access information stored within them, such as your direct messages.

Those Tweets You Don't Want People To See

In Facebook head to Settings & privacy, Activity log and select the type of activity you want to delete—ranging from posts to photos you’re tagged in. The tool isn’t the most streamlined if you want to delete years of Facebook usage, but as with all efforts to wipe yourself from the internet, you’ll get better results if you spend more time doing it. Alternatively, you can just <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-delete-your-facebook-account/">delete your Facebook account entirely</a>.

Deleting Facebook

A lot of the ways to remove yourself from the web are time-consuming and involve a lot of paperwork. There may be some instances where you may want to try to speed things up a little or use legal muscle. It may be sensible to seek legal advice and help remove your data from the web if it involves defamatory statements, explicit photographs, and other harmful content.<a href="https://joindeleteme.com/">DeleteMe</a> will try to remove your data from data brokers selling your information, for example. And <a href="https://www.withjumbo.com/">Jumbo</a> can alert you to data breaches and automatically delete new social media posts after a certain number of days.

Getting Serious About Erasing Yourself From The Web

It’s pretty much impossible to keep your data off the internet entirely, but there are some steps you can take going forward. First, consider how much information you want to proactively put online. When you’re signing up for new online accounts, consider whether you need to enter your personal details or whether it would be better to use a <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/avoid-spam-disposable-email-burner-phone-number/">burner account to mask your identity</a>.

Future Protections

Where possible avoid using Big Tech for all your online activities. Pick a <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/privacy-browsers-duckduckgo-ghostery-brave/">web browser</a> and <a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/best-google-search-engine-alternative-privacy">search engine</a> that don’t collect your data; use end-to-end-encrypted apps and <a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/whatsapp-signal-disappearing-messages">disappearing messages</a> when appropriate; and understand what data WhatsApp, Instagram, Google, <a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/amazon-history-data">Amazon</a>, Spotify and others collect about you.

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PrivacyHQ.com survey shows that <ul><li>63% of parents allow their children to watch YouTube,</li><li>54% allow their teens to use Instagram, and</li><li>49% let their teenagers use TikTok.</li></ul> <ul><li>A third of parents allow their children younger than 13 to use social networking to help them with future goals such as becoming content creators or professional gamers.</li><li>64% of parents said their child wants to influence others on Instagram and YouTube.</li></ul>

Children and the internet survey results 

Social media exposes younger users to content that is worse than on TV. The Internet and social media have an overabundance of information that is not child friendly, such as adult content or breaking news. Research found that although 95% of parents talked to their children about social media safety, <ul><li>almost 50% did not discuss topics like bot recognition, privacy, fake accounts and the differences between real and online life.</li><li>52% of parents did not speak to their children about issues like cyberbullying. </li><li>20% of parents caught their child posting to a fake Instagram (finsta) account.</li></ul>

The danger of the Internet and social media

There are no universal ratings for content shared on social media. However, parents can stop their children from downloading apps to smartphones, so platforms can or should not do anything unless they require identification when signing up. While YouTube is full of good educational content, it is still unsuitable for children under 13 years old. The same goes for other platforms.

Inadequacy of ratings

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Casual observation tells us that most people don’t use math beyond simple arithmetic in everyday life. Few people make use of fractions, trigonometry, or multi-digit division algorithms they use in school. More advanced tools like algebra or calculus are even less likely to be brought out to solve everyday problems.

Evidence for the Failure to Use Math

I see three explanations for the failure to use math in everyday life:1. Most people don’t learn math well enough to use it effortlessly.2. We learn school math but fail to translate real problems into a format where we can apply our math knowledge.3. Most higher math isn’t useful for everyday problems.

Why Do People Fail to Use Math

There seem to be a few options:1. More drill and practice with math. More time spent drilling and practicing math makes it more available for effortless calculations.2. More practice with interpreting problem situations. We need to give students more training in noticing and converting everyday situations into the math problems they know how to solve.3. Give real-life challenges that require math. Ultimately, skills and knowledge are sustained by usage. If you don’t have any genuine problems that require a skill, you begin to forget it.

How Can We Make Math More Useful?

How much of the math you’ve learned in school do you use in everyday life?

Why do we fail to use so many of the subjects we learn in school? Are they useless, or do we simply fail to learn them well enough?

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The virtual world can seem more immediate and significant than the smelly, tasty, touchy 3D Real World. Its a place of anxiety and triumphant exhilaration which sweeps us into the social networking swirl of collective consciousness.It is a parallel world where you can be on the move in the Real World, yet always hooked into an alternative time and place.Many parents complain that they are unable to take their child away from screen time and back into the 3D world.

A Global Phenomenon

Sharing personal information about oneself, as promoted on social networking sites, activates the reward systems in the brain the same way as food and sex do.

Upon waking, you will be checking your phone within 15 minutes of consciousness.You will need stimulation, excitement and escapism. So you use technology to socialise, for online shopping, playing games etc.The Real physical world is becoming less relevant as traditional constraints of time and space fade.The time that could have been spent walking in fresh air or having a face to face conversation has been forfeited in favour of cyberactivity, which is a completely new type of environment where taste, smell and touch are not stimulated, being completely sedentary for long periods of time.

Unprecedented Times

We have always invented new things, we have always worried about new things and we have always moaned about the younger generations.

In 2000, brain scans showed that London cab drivers had developed physical changes in their brains as a result of their daily activity of constantly using their working memory. Their hippocampus was actually bigger compared to non taxi drivers of the same age. This is an example of the 'use it or lose it' principle.Plasticity is the term for this process, the brains ability to shape and mould itself in response to stimuli.Environmental enrichment has been demonstrated in studies showing physical changes in neural circuits through experience.

How The Brain Changes

How digital technologies are leaving their mark on our brains.

We live in a world unimaginable only decades ago: a domain of backlit screens, instant information, and vibrant experiences that can outcompete dreary reality. Our brave new technologies offer incredible opportunities for work and play. But at what price? Now renowned neuroscientist Susan Greenfield—known in the United Kingdom for challenging entrenched conventional views—brings together a range of scientific studies, news events, and cultural criticism to create an incisive snapshot of “the global now.” Disputing the assumption that our technologies are harmless tools, Greenfield explores whether incessant exposure to social media sites, search engines, and videogames is capable of rewiring our brains, and whether the minds of people born before and after the advent of the Internet differ. Stressing the impact on Digital Natives—those who’ve never known a world without the Internet—Greenfield exposes how neuronal networking may be affected by unprecedented bombardments of audiovisual stimuli, how gaming can shape a chemical landscape in the brain similar to that in gambling addicts, how surfing the Net risks placing a premium on information rather than on deep knowledge and understanding, and how excessive use of social networking sites limits the maturation of empathy and identity. But Mind Change also delves into the potential benefits of our digital lifestyle. Sifting through the cocktail of not only threat but opportunity these technologies afford, Greenfield explores how gaming enhances vision and motor control, how touch tablets aid students with developmental disabilities, and how political “clicktivism” foments positive change. In a world where adults spend ten hours a day online, and where tablets are the common means by which children learn and play, Mind Change reveals as never before the complex physiological, social, and cultural ramifications of living in the digital age. A book that will be to the Internet what An Inconvenient Truth was to global warming, Mind Change is provocative, alarming, and a call to action to ensure a future in which technology fosters—not frustrates—deep thinking, creativity, and true fulfillment. Praise for Mind Change “Greenfield’s application of the mismatch between human and machine to the brain introduces an important variation on this pervasive view of technology. . . . She has a rare talent for explaining science in accessible prose.”—The Washington Post “Greenfield’s focus is on bringing to light the implications of Internet-induced ‘mind change’—as comparably multifaceted as the issue of climate change, she argues, and just as important.”—Chicago Tribune “Mind Change is exceedingly well organized and hits the right balance between academic and provocative.”—Booklist “[A] challenging, stimulating perspective from an informed neuroscientist on a complex, fast-moving, hugely consequential field.”—Kirkus Reviews “[Greenfield] is not just an engaging communicator but a thoughtful, responsible scientist, and the arguments she makes are well-supported and persuasive.”—Mail on Sunday “Greenfield’s admirable goal to prove an empirical basis for discussion is . . . an important one.”—Financial Times “An important presentation of an uncomfortable minority position.”—Jaron Lanier, Nature

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