NurtureShock

By Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman,

Book cover of NurtureShock: New Thinking about Children

Book description

One of the most influential books about children ever published, Nurture Shock offers a revolutionary new perspective on children that upends a library's worth of conventional wisdom. With impeccable storytelling and razor-sharp analysis, the authors demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key…

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1 author picked NurtureShock as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This awesome book covers not only raising a baby, but parenting in general. Each of its 10 chapters upends traditional thinking on a parenting topic, like “how to boost baby’s language skills” and “why siblings fight”. It is so engaging that, despite being a bleary-eyed mom of a newborn, I read it in two days!

From Anya's list on raising a baby.

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