4 Insights from Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn.

Punishments and rewards are 2 sides of the same coin — and both are unproductive.

Love is not a scarce commodity that must be rationed.

Childhood is not a race

Various informants have since told me that cutting horizontally first helps keep it together better as you’re cutting, and that cutting this way first helps keep the tears away longer. I’d probably vote ease of cutting and reverse the order here.

Cut an onion into teeny pieces

Seth Godin did a recent post about the 9-dot problem that explains more about it, albeit not in as interesting a way.

Solve the 9-dot problem