Author

Contributions

  • Merryman, Ashley - Contributor

Publication

2009 - Twelve, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

84,000 words, Guess

Page Count

336 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC305.231
  • LCCHQ772 .B8455 2009
  • LCCHQ772.B8455 2009

Alternate Titles

  • Nurture shock

Description

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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