9780374229702-0374229708-The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children

The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children

ISBN-13: 9780374229702
ISBN-10: 0374229708
Author: Alison Gopnik
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780374229702
ISBN-10: 0374229708
Author: Alison Gopnik
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover 320 pages

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The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children (ISBN-13: 9780374229702 and ISBN-10: 0374229708), written by authors Alison Gopnik, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2016. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Child Psychology (Psychology & Counseling, Child Psychology, Psychology) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Child Psychology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.44.

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One of the world's leading child psychologists shatters the myth of "good parenting"

Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call "parenting" is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the multibillion dollar industry surrounding it have transformed child care into obsessive, controlling, and goal-oriented labor intended to create a particular kind of child and therefore a particular kind of adult. In The Gardener and the Carpenter, the pioneering developmental psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik argues that the familiar twenty-first-century picture of parents and children is profoundly wrong--it's not just based on bad science, it's bad for kids and parents, too.

Drawing on the study of human evolution and her own cutting-edge scientific research into how children learn, Gopnik shows that although caring for children is profoundly important, it is not a matter of shaping them to turn out a particular way. Children are designed to be messy and unpredictable, playful and imaginative, and to be very different both from their parents and from each other. The variability and flexibility of childhood lets them innovate, create, and survive in an unpredictable world. “Parenting" won't make children learn―but caring parents let children learn by creating a secure, loving environment.

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