Binding: Paperback
Description: In The Gardener and the Carpenter Alison Gopnik one of the world's leading child psychologists illuminates the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective and 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 child and therefore a particular kind of adult. 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. 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. Children are designed to be messy and unpredictable playful and imaginative and to be very different both from their parents and from each other.
Title: The Gardener And The Carpenter What The New Science Of Child Development Tells Us About The Relationship Between Parents And Children
Author(s): Gopnik Alison
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250132253
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/1/2017
Category: Child & Developmental Psychology