NurtureShock : new thinking about children / Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Twelve, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 336 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780446504126 :
  • 0446504122
Other title:
  • Nurture shock
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ 772 .B8455 2009
Contents:
The inverse power of praise -- The lost hour -- Why white parents don't talk about race -- Why kids lie -- The search for intelligent life in kindergarten -- The sibling effect -- The science of teen rebellion -- Can self-control be taught? -- Plays well with others -- Why Hannah talks and Alyssa doesn't -- The myth of the supertrait.
Summary: Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science of child development have been overlooked. The authors discuss the inverse power of praise, why insufficient sleep adversely affects kids' capacity to learn, why white parents don't talk about race, why kids lie, why evaluation methods for "giftedness" and accompanying programs don't work, and why siblings really fight.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection HQ 772 .B8455 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98638025

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-327) and index.

The inverse power of praise -- The lost hour -- Why white parents don't talk about race -- Why kids lie -- The search for intelligent life in kindergarten -- The sibling effect -- The science of teen rebellion -- Can self-control be taught? -- Plays well with others -- Why Hannah talks and Alyssa doesn't -- The myth of the supertrait.

Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science of child development have been overlooked. The authors discuss the inverse power of praise, why insufficient sleep adversely affects kids' capacity to learn, why white parents don't talk about race, why kids lie, why evaluation methods for "giftedness" and accompanying programs don't work, and why siblings really fight.

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