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Nurtureshock

New Thinking about Children

By Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman

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| Others | 9780446504126

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Nurtureshock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman

This book has been hailed as "a wake-up call for parents" and "the Freakonomics of child-rearing". It caused a storm in the US, where it was on the New York Times bestseller list for two months. The authors, journalists Ashley Merryman and Po Bronson ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

Kid Stuff

As if we needed yet another indicator of economic collapse, note that the men who once chronicled financial high jinks have turned to baby sling strategy and sibling rivalry. First Michael Lewis, author of “Liar’s Poker,” hit the best-seller list wit ... (read full critics)

nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

4 Reviews

I wish they didn't feel the need to have quite such pat lessons at the end, but otherwise great.

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pktechgirl said on Oct 20, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Fantastic! Alter many long-held rules on raising kids.

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Gabiq said on Dec 27, 2009 | Add your feedback

NurtureShock: A Book for Anyone who Deals with Children from Parents to Teachers to Pastors

In NurtureShock:New Thinking About Children, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman have brought together all the new research on children and their learning and development. They write about children and lying, children and language acquisition, children and sleep, children and praise, children and g ... (continue)

In NurtureShock:New Thinking About Children, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman have brought together all the new research on children and their learning and development. They write about children and lying, children and language acquisition, children and sleep, children and praise, children and giftedness, and so much more. About praise, we praise way too much and in the wrong way, which actually prevents children from trying more difficult tasks. About sleep, children are not little adults who can manage too little sleep. About language, video learning does not work. About getting along with siblings, children don't learn how to do this from their parents. About giftedness, we test way too early. And most importantly, the authors introduce us to a new way of doing preschool called Tools of the Mind. If you are a parent, a teacher, a pastor, you need to read this book. This is not difficult reading. They have taken the academic studies of countless researchers and presented such studies in terms that we can all understand.

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Nicholasmarcy said on Dec 27, 2009 | Add your feedback

really interesting ... very factually based. 1/4 of the book is a list of resources!

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Helen said on Dec 19, 2009 | Add your feedback