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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

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

Gopnik, Alison

Paperback

Child PsychologyGeneral Parenting

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 1250132258
ISBN13: 9781250132253
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Aug 1 2017
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

In The Gardener and the Carpenter, Alison Gopnik, one of the world's leading child psychologists, illuminates the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective and 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.

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