If you are a parent or work with children, then you will enjoy this book. The authors reveal how many well-intentioned parenting strategies are not working. Nurture Shock covers a wide variety of parenting topics including how the self-esteem movement has backfired, how children learn about race, la...
Notes:1: Praise effort, not smarts. Teach kids that the brain is like a muscle. The harder you work it, the better it gets. Praise intermittently. Be specific. Chinese moms who analyzed the child's performance (Maybe you didn't concentrate) and tell their kids to work harder affect kids' scores more...
This is my favorite non-fiction book of the year. Like Freakonomics changed my thinking about social and economic situations, NurtureShock radically changed my perceptions about raising children. From giving praise to teaching racial equality, this book covers all the bases on understanding how kids...
Usually when a book falls between 2 and 3 stars I round it up to 3 but this book feels like a solid 2.5. I liked parts of it and found many interesting points to ponder in the various chapters but it reads like an anthology of topics, none very deep. When choosing the shelves for this book I hesit...
It turns out I've been reading this book long before I picked it up from the library as a few of the chapters are previously published journal articles, such as:The Inverse Power of PraiseThe Lost HourSee Baby DiscriminateI was immediately impressed by the book from the first chapter. The basic conc...
Fascinating look at current research in child development, covering everything from why siblings really fight (Freud was wrong, Shakespeare was right); why teen arguing is a sign of respect, not rebellion; why white parents don't talk about race but should; and how classic strategies to promote trut...
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