Future-Thinking and Family Rituals - with Kevin Kelly - The A-Parently Podcast #26

As a parent, it's easy to get caught up in how every single moment of your parenting needs to be incredibly well planned out and that our child's long-term well-being is solely in our hands.While it's important to be intentional, Kevin Kelly will tell you that we should be focusing more of our efforts on first, helping our kids understand how they learn best and then using that learning ability to help develop an identity with the support of their family.One of the best tools for achieving this identity is the family ritual. Whether big or small, significant or mundane, Kelly argues that these rituals give kids a solid foundation in which to feel safe and grounded as they navigate the world without the constant supervision of their caregivers.-Guest Bio:Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. His newest book is  The Inevitable , a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. He is founder of the popular  Cool Tools  website, which has been reviewing tools daily for 20 years. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a subscriber-supported journal of unorthodox conceptual news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. Other books by Kelly include 1)  Out of Control , the 1994 classic book on decentralized emergent systems, 2)  The Silver Cord , a graphic novel about robots and angels, 3)  What Technology Wants , a robust theory of technology, and 4) Vanishing Asia, his 50-year project to photograph the disappearing cultures of Asia. He is currently co-chair of  The Long Now Foundation , which is building a clock in a mountain that will tick for 10,000 years.