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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
Contributor(s): Gopnik, Alison (Author)

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ISBN: 1250132258     ISBN-13: 9781250132253
Publisher: Picador USA
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Developmental - Child
- Family & Relationships | Parenting - Motherhood
Dewey: 155.4
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" L (0.65 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Family
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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.


Contributor Bio(s): Gopnik, Alison: - Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of The Philosophical Baby and The Scientist in the Crib.
 
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