NurtureShock : new thinking about children /

NurtureShock : new thinking about children /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bronson, Po, 1964-
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : Twelve, 2009.
Description:	xi, 336 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Child development. Child psychology. Child rearing. Parenting. Child development. Child psychology. Child rearing. Parenting.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7804812

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Varying Form of Title:	Nurture shock
Other authors / contributors:	Merryman, Ashley.
ISBN:	9780446504126 : $24.99 0446504122
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-327) and index.
Summary:	Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science of child development have been overlooked. The authors discuss the inverse power of praise, why insufficient sleep adversely affects kids' capacity to learn, why white parents don't talk about race, why kids lie, why evaluation methods for "giftedness" and accompanying programs don't work, and why siblings really fight.

Table of Contents:

The inverse power of praise
The lost hour
Why white parents don't talk about race
Why kids lie
The search for intelligent life in kindergarten
The sibling effect
The science of teen rebellion
Can self-control be taught?
Plays well with others
Why Hannah talks and Alyssa doesn't
The myth of the supertrait.