The gardener and the carpenter : what the new science of child development tells us about the relationship between parents and children
by Gopnik, Alison (Author)
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"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 goa... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The parent paradoxes
- Against parenting
- The evolution of childhood
- The evolution of love
- Learning through looking
- Learning through listening
- The work of play
- Growing up
- The future and the past : children and technology
- The value of children.