NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
Ratings12
Average rating4.3
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Ratings12
Average rating4.3
Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science of child development have been overlooked. The authors discuss the inverse power of praise, why insufficient sleep adversely affects kids' capacity to learn, why white parents don't talk about race, why kids lie, why evaluation methods for "giftedness" and accompanying programs don't work, and why siblings really fight.
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This is the first parenting book that has appealed to me as intelligent and worth reading. Most are propaganda for one particular person's idea of what kind of kid to raise. This is more a survey of research and finding out what seems to be working, and why. Great stuff!
Amazing! The new research in behavioral psychology and neuroscience addresses why kids do what they do, learn the way they learn, and what parents and educators can do to best meet their needs. It was a fascinating read written in layman's terms and is a must read for any parent.
