The Gardener and the Carpenter : What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children download ebook MOBI, DJV, FB2
9780374229702 English 0374229708 Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call "parenting" is a surprisingly new invention - it's just thirty years old. In that time, the concept of parenting, and the multibillion dollar industry surrounding it, has 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 Parent Paradoxes , pioneering developmental psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik argues that the familiar twenty-first-century picture of parents and children is profoundly wrong - not just scientifically but practically, too.Drawing on the study of human evolution and her own cutting-edge scientific research into how children learn, Gopnik shows that caring for children is not a matter of shaping them to turn out a particular way. Instead, being a good parent means creating a rich, safe, and stable world where they can thrive. Children are messy and unpredictable, playful and imaginative, and very different both from their parents and from each other. The variability and flexibility of childhood lets them innovate, create, and survive in an unpredictable world. In fact, young children learn the most not through controlled instruction but through everyday observation, conversation, and, most of all, play. "Parenting" won't make children learn - caring parents let children learn., 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 philosopher Alison Gopnik argues that the familiar twenty-first-century picture of parents and children is profoundly wrong--it's not just based on bad science, it's bad for kids and parents, too. Drawing on the study of human evolution and her own cutting-edge scientific research into how children learn, Gopnik shows that although caring for children is profoundly important, it is not a matter of shaping them to turn out a particular way. Children are designed to be messy and unpredictable, playful and imaginative, and to be very different both from their parents and from each other. The variability and flexibility of childhood lets them innovate, create, and survive in an unpredictable world. "Parenting" won't make children learn--but caring parents let children learn by creating a secure, loving environment.
9780374229702 English 0374229708 Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call "parenting" is a surprisingly new invention - it's just thirty years old. In that time, the concept of parenting, and the multibillion dollar industry surrounding it, has 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 Parent Paradoxes , pioneering developmental psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik argues that the familiar twenty-first-century picture of parents and children is profoundly wrong - not just scientifically but practically, too.Drawing on the study of human evolution and her own cutting-edge scientific research into how children learn, Gopnik shows that caring for children is not a matter of shaping them to turn out a particular way. Instead, being a good parent means creating a rich, safe, and stable world where they can thrive. Children are messy and unpredictable, playful and imaginative, and very different both from their parents and from each other. The variability and flexibility of childhood lets them innovate, create, and survive in an unpredictable world. In fact, young children learn the most not through controlled instruction but through everyday observation, conversation, and, most of all, play. "Parenting" won't make children learn - caring parents let children learn., 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 philosopher Alison Gopnik argues that the familiar twenty-first-century picture of parents and children is profoundly wrong--it's not just based on bad science, it's bad for kids and parents, too. Drawing on the study of human evolution and her own cutting-edge scientific research into how children learn, Gopnik shows that although caring for children is profoundly important, it is not a matter of shaping them to turn out a particular way. Children are designed to be messy and unpredictable, playful and imaginative, and to be very different both from their parents and from each other. The variability and flexibility of childhood lets them innovate, create, and survive in an unpredictable world. "Parenting" won't make children learn--but caring parents let children learn by creating a secure, loving environment.