The Gardener and the Carpenter What the Alison Gopnik Paperback

Description: Title: The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship Between Parents and Children Author: Gopnik, Alison Publisher: Picador USA Binding: Paperback Pages: 320 Dimensions: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d Product Weight: 0.65 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781250132253 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. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer

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