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Here’s Why You’re Better Off Forgetting About Meditation.
About 7 years ago, Karl Greenfeld noticed something strange about his daughter Esmee. Every day between the hours of 8 pm and midnight, she could be found at home doing her homework.
This practically unheard of teenage behaviour led Karl to worry that his daughter was being so overwhelmed by her schoolwork that she wasn’t getting the time to be an actual teenager. So, he did what any responsible parent would do; he spent a week doing his daughter’s homework.
After he got home from work, Karl would sit with Esme and do whatever she’d been set for that day (don’t worry, she still had to do it too). The plan was to figure out for himself whether her workload was unreasonable *spoiler: it was* and whether it was beneficial *spoiler: it kind of was.
It’s a great read overall, but I mention the story here because I was especially struck by what his daughter said to him as he struggled with some Spanish verb conjugations on the second day:
Esmee shows me that we have to memorize the conjugations of the future tense of regular and irregular verbs, and she slides me a sheet with tener, tendré, tendrás, tendrá, tendremos, etc., multiplied by dozens of verbs. My daughter has done a commendable job…
