The Gardener and the Carpenter

The Gardener and the Carpenter by Alison Gopnik

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 30 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, pioneering developmental psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik argues that the familiar 21st-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 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 secure, loving environments.

Gopnik, Alison: - Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of The Philosophical Baby and The Scientist in the Crib.

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ISBN 13	9781250132253
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Titel	The Gardener and the Carpenter
Autor	Alison Gopnik
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Picador USA
Erscheinungsjahr	2017-08-01
Seitenanzahl	320
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