Nurtureshock : : new Thinking About Children

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Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Family & Relationships / Parenting / Bronson, Po	4-week checkout	Due 05-17-2024

Includes index.
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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Strongly, strongly recommended. submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on August 11, 2017, 8:28pm An astonishing book that just may be one of those few ones that every parent of babies to teens should read. I'm strongly tempted to go back to the first page and read it again, but I want Scott to read it before I have to get it back to the library (where I was somewhere around #100 on the wait list when I first requested it).

The authors look at a variety of child-rearing topics (praise, aggression, lying, racial empathy, gifted programs and more) and use solid empirical research (reported in the most accessible way!) to show that our conventional wisdom and "instincts" are often completely wrong.

It has already changed the way I parent.

My one gripe is that there are some topics where my ending impression was that I now know what *not* to do, but that I wasn't given any direction about what I should do instead. (This is largely why I want to re-read the book.) Most of the topics weren't that way, however, and I feel like I have a fine sense of how to improve my parenting from here.

Strongly, strongly recommended.