TACIT INTELLIGENCE FOR PARENTING

Every parent wants to raise a successful child. Far fewer stop to ask: successful at being what kind of adult?
Most parenting advice focuses on the next eighteen years - grades, screens, schedules, milestones. But children spend less than a quarter of their lives as children. The other three-quarters, the sixty-plus years that follow, are shaped by qualities no report card measures: character, resilience, emotional security, purpose, and wisdom.
Tacit Intelligence for Parenting reframes parenting as stewardship rather than ownership - an invisible, long-term investment whose returns compound quietly over decades and echo across generations. Drawing on economics, psychology, neuroscience, and decades of observing how people actually flourish, Professor Uwem Essia offers a refreshingly different lens: instead of managing childhood, parents are forming future adults.
Inside, you'll discover:

• Parenting Capital - the invisible wealth of trust, character, and emotional security that compounds over a lifetime
• Why stewardship, not ownership is the healthier - and more effective - parenting posture
• How small, consistent choices compound into character, and why comfort alone can't build resilience
• The difference between schooling and education, and how to raise children who discover their own comparative advantage
• How to navigate technology and attention in a childhood unlike any before it
• Why the truest measure of parenting success is not control, but the courage to release - well