The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children
By Alison Gopnik.
Description
One of the world's leading child psychologists 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 phi...
ISBN(s)
0374229708, 9780374229702
