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Gopnik, Alison.
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Developmental psychology.
Child psychology.
Parenting.
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Gopnik, Alison.
Developmental psychology.
Child psychology.
Parenting.
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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
/ Alison Gopnik.
by
Gopnik, Alison.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Call #:
155.4 G659g
Subjects
Developmental psychology.
Child
psychology.
Parenting.
ISBN:
9780374229702 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
x, 302 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The parent paradoxes -- Against parenting -- The evolution of childhood -- The evolution of love -- Learning through looking -- Learning through listening -- The work of play -- Growing up -- The future and the past :
children
and technology -- The value of
children
.
Summary:
"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 thereby a particular kind of adult. 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. Gopnik shows that although caring for
children
is immensely important, the goal should not be to shape them so they 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 one another. The variability and flexibility of childhood allow them to innovate, create, and survive in an unpredictable world. Caring
parents
let
children
learn by creating a secure, loving environment"--Provided by publisher.
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