I think this was probably pretty groundbreaking when it came out, but most of the content is fairly well-known information by now. It also has a bit of a judgemental tone...and that's coming from someone who's pretty on board with the author's message.
I read this for an anthropology class at my university. Although I'm many many years away from parenting, I consider reading it a paradigm-shifting moment. I have so many ideas now about how I want to raise my children. And although I try not to be a proselytizing student of anthropology, I cringe w...
I read this book when my kids were really small. It didn't give me a lot of advice or insight into how to be a parent but was it ever interesting! The anthropologist's perspective on this topic was different from anything I had read and I learned a lot about humans.
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