The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship Between Parents and Children by Gopnik, Alison
The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship Between Parents and Children by Gopnik, Alison

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

Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call...
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SKU: 9781536617832
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Author: Alison Gopnik
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Language: English
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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 by Gopnik, Alison

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

CHF 24.34
The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship Between Parents and Children by Gopnik, Alison

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

CHF 24.34
Author: Alison Gopnik
Format: MP3 CD
Language: English
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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 30 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, pioneering developmental psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik argues that the familiar 21st-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 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 secure, loving environments.



Author: Alison Gopnik
Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance
Published: 10/25/2016
Binding Type: MP3 CD
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 6.60h x 5.30w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781536617832

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