The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Expecting Better , an economist\'s Guide to the early years of parenting.
She has two children..
Oster is married to economist Jesse Shapiro and is also the daughter of two economists.
She was a speaker at the 2007 TED conference and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Esquire .
About the Author: Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University and the author of Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know .
Emily Oster is a trained expert--and mom of two--who can empower us to make better, less fraught decisions--and stay sane in the years before preschool.
Economics is the science of decision-making, and Cribsheet is a thinking parent\'s Guide to the chaos and frequent misinformation of the early years.
She also shows parents how to think through freighted questions like if and how to go back to work, how to think about toddler discipline, and how to have a relationship and parent at the same time.
She debunks myths around breastfeeding (not a panacea), sleep training (not so bad ), potty training (wait until they\'re ready or possibly bribe with M&Ms), language acquisition (early talkers aren\'t necessarily geniuses), and many other topics.
How do you make your own best decision? Armed with the data, Oster finds that the conventional wisdom doesn\'t always hold up.
But the benefits of these choices can be overstated, and the trade-offs can be profound.
There\'s a rule--or three--for everything.
from the earliest days, parents get the message that they must make certain choices around feeding, sleep, and schedule or all will be lost.
As any new parent knows, there is an abundance of often-conflicting advice hurled at you from doctors, family, friends, and strangers on the internet.
In Cribsheet , she now tackles an even greater challenge: decision-making in the early years of parenting.
By digging into the data, Oster found that much of the conventional pregnancy wisdom was wrong.
Cribsheet is not another call for the end of helicopter Parenting or snowplow Parenting or whatever kind of Parenting is lighting up social media today, and it\'s not a call to overthrow medical wisdom; it\'s a call for Parenting with context, and it\'s freeing." -- The Washington Post With Expecting Better , award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies. "Many parents will likely find reading it a huge relief from the scare stories that seem to pop up everywhere these days...
The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Expecting Better , an economist\'s Guide to the early years of parenting
