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Hardcover The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship Between Parents and Children Book

ISBN: 0374229708

ISBN13: 9780374229702

The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship Between Parents and Children

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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. 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...

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a Grandma wrote this

Although this book offered some great insights, in many ways it could be summed up as a book about “free-style parenting from the perspective of a grandma”. The author uses a lot of her personal experiences around her own children, but much around her grandchildren too. I lost interest.
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