It's practically horizontal. You know what that means? Dandelions are almost not impacted by family stress or childhood stress.Wow. Now, you can go-- you can see why it's so important that we have 80% of any population, that is going to be minimally
So you guys, there's mutations that happen natural-- I mean, every time you try to make a copy, there's going to be a change. Dandelions and sea jellies, barnacles, they're all doing it like crazy out there.
It's a living; where other people have dried out and blown away, he has remained: a tamarisk hunter, a water tick, a stubborn bit of weed. Everyone else has blown off the land as surely as dandelion seeds, set free to fly south or east. Or most of all north to where watersheds sometimes still run deep and where even if there's no more lush ferns or deep fish--deep cold fish runs, at least there's still water for people.
But actually, it's OK, you adults. versus dandelions , how can you optimize for both types of people?
They prosper and thrive almost anywhere they're planted. Like dandelions , these are the majority of children whose well-being is all but assured by their constitutional hardiness and strength. But there are others, however, who, more like orchids, can wither and fade when unattended by caring support, but who also, like orchids, can become creatures
So this is the thing that's a little aggravating for me as an orchid that just makes me wish sometimes I could be a dandelion . Look at the dandelion line. It's practically horizontal. You know what that means?
And then the second book is into-- the first book was more about who I am. And then Dandelion Chocolate.
And then the second book is into-- the first book was more about who I am. I do love Dandelion Chocolate a lot.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. an orchid or a dandelion .
It's like OK. So just going more small scale. I say dandelion . JONATHAN ALFERNESS Oh, I was saying "dan-dee-lion," I guess.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. are orchids or dandelions overlap some with these psychological disorders.
Some children are like-- a nursery school teacher described this to me. Some children are like dandelions . They're robust, and they can flourish in lots of places.
I guess maybe. Fun fact, you actually can't find them in Florida either. Because the dandelions are all wilted.
But actually, it's OK, you adults. And the person who's the dandelion who's at work can help support that.
So I want to now share with you some of the scientific basis, really the scientific story, out of which the book grew. So "The Orchid and the Dandelion -- Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Survive." I am a sailor of small boats among other callings. And when I'm out on that brisk, blue San Francisco Bay, I am really attuned to the surface conditions
And he said, the Swedes have this idiomatic expression, maskrosbarn, which means, literally, dandelion child. And what the Swedes mean by dandelion child is that there are these kids who, like the dandelion , can grow anywhere they're planted. They grow in fertile mountain fields.
and epigenetic variation as well. So who are these orchid and dandelion children? Well, the dandelion children, in addition to being those who are low in reactivity, are often extroverted.
I guess maybe. Fun fact, you actually can't find them in Florida either. And I saw this beautiful field of dandelions at sunset, and all their little dandelion heads were glowing.
And what he figured out was that 2,4-D was really picky. It killed broad-leaved weeds like dandelions , chickweed, and poison ivy, but it virtually ignored crops. Wheat, corn, and barley were all mostly unaffected by 2,4-D because all of these are species of grass.
If you're over 30 and kids, it's like a nightmare. So I started this comic called Dandelions .
I guess maybe. Fun fact, you actually can't find them in Florida either. So there's actually only like four dandelions in the movie, just placed in such a way that it looks like there was a lot
stone hung in the air Moscow had been in the midst of an unusually warm smell spell it was already late November yet dandelions and daisies were poking out of the earth nurtured by a steady balmy drizzle the few flakes of snow that had
But actually, it's OK, you adults. To practice loving care is the responsibility of the dandelion partner.
They were like a Janus-faced god that could look in either direction. We began to call these kids with the yellow data plots dandelion children. When I was presenting some of these data at Stanford years ago, at the end of the lecture, an old guy came up the middle of the aisle with a gnarly cane
They are so hardy that they can grow anywhere and prosper anywhere. So we began to think of these kids as dandelion children. And of course, we then had to begin thinking of the others as orchid children, orkidebarn, the children who, like the orchid, have either the most flourishing, best
So who are these orchid and dandelion children? Well, the dandelion children, in addition to being those who are low in reactivity, are often extroverted. They are very comfortable with novel situations.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. to affect whether a child becomes an orchid child or a dandelion child.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. So that is the story of the orchid and the dandelion .
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. My wife and I had an orchid daughter and a dandelion son who once were teenagers, but now are almost 40.
There's nothing wrong with iceberg lettuce. But clearly, nettle or dandelion or arugula has a lot more punch. And the same with mushrooms.
They have no idea what it is. Our chef actually has a book coming out today called "Dandelion and Quince." It's about 36 unusual fruits, vegetables, and herbs that you may not have heard of and may not be using.
What I do if a patient comes to my office, whatever their problem is, and however severe it is, people are often shocked. You don't have to be eating broccoli rabe or dandelion greens every day.
Though distinctive in several dimensions, dandelions have their own life struggles and challenges that will be important to understand and define. We will also discover that beneath the serviceable categories of orchid and dandelion lies the truer reality of a continuum, a spectrum of sensitivities to the world, along which we all have a place.
They have these sensory hypersensitivities, like aversions to loud noise or certain kinds of tastes. So the answer to the question, where do dandelion and orchid children come from?
I'll tell you the story of this picture. So, the smaller blonde girl holding the dandelion , that's me when I was about three. And the story behind it is that when I was very little, I lived in a very small village called Sagaponack, on the eastern end of Long Island.
It's like OK. So just going more small scale. In fact, you were at Dandelion Chocolate just the other day in San Francisco, weren't you?
to the conditions of life that surround and sustain them. Most of our children can, like dandelions , thrive in all but the harshest, most bestial circumstances. But a minority of others, like orchids, either blossoms beautifully or wane disappointingly, depending upon how we tend and spare and care for them.
take note of how essential, how vital, such individuals are to what George Eliot referred to as the growing good of the world. Though distinctive in several dimensions, dandelions have their own life struggles and challenges that will be important to understand and define. We will also discover that beneath the serviceable categories of orchid and dandelion lies the truer reality of a continuum,
under the conditions of quiescence and no stress. And of course, we now began to think of monkeys as dandelion monkeys and orchid monkeys. So there seems to be a replicability of this, not just in human children, but in related species as well.
Michelle McKenzie's here to talk about her brand new book, "Dandelion & Quince," her first one.
It is a flawed dichotomy that attributes weakness or strength, frailty or vigor to individual subgroups of youth and obscures a deeper reality that all children simply differ, like orchids and dandelions , in their susceptibilities and sensitivities to the conditions of life that surround and sustain them.
a spectrum of sensitivities to the world, along which we all have a place. In the end, it will be the remarkable complementarity of orchids and dandelions that we will want to sustain and remember, the usefulness and often love of the one for the other, the symmetry and mutuality of their symphonic roles in human discourse and history, and their co-evolution as
better it's a bit like an ecosystem transplant I compare it to say rfing a lawn that's been overrun with dandelions
I mean, I was thinking about it today. I was like, I don't even know where you would find puffy dandelions here. I guess maybe. Fun fact, you actually can't find them in Florida either.
I guess maybe. Fun fact, you actually can't find them in Florida either. And we're like, where is this field of dandelions ?
It'll have spinach, Swiss chard, sorrel, sweet dandelion ,
So if you don't have sorrel, save the radish greens from your radishes and use those, or dandelion greens, which are something that grow all over California
This is early signs of future mental illness. If an orchid child or a highly sensitive child is raised in a low stress environment, they have way fewer problems than a dandelion child. If they're in high stress environment, and this, again, is marital conflict, but it doesn't matter what the stress is, they have way more problems.
If they're in high stress environment, and this, again, is marital conflict, but it doesn't matter what the stress is, they have way more problems. So this is the thing that's a little aggravating for me as an orchid that just makes me wish sometimes I could be a dandelion . Look at the dandelion line.
and potential has been shaken. For, in the story of the figure of speech from which this book draws its enigmatic title, the metaphor of the orchid and the dandelion , lies a deep and often helpful truth about the origins of affliction and the redemption of individual lives.