Wired for Scarcity
When children act like bald eagle chicks.
An adult female bald eagle lays two or three eggs. Only one bald eagle chick survives. The stronger sibling eats all of the food and eventually knocks the weaker chick out of the nest. I didn’t know this until watching a nature special with my children.
Children, and adult humans, are wired for scarcity.
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