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.
Children are designed to be messy and unpredictable, playful and imaginative--and to be very different both from their Parents and from each other..
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.
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.
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.
Yet the thing we call parenting is a surprisingly new invention.
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
