This controversial book aims to challenge our preconceived notions of child rearing - from querying the causal link between obesity and sleep deprivation, to why white parents are reluctant to talk to their children about racial difference - some of the ideas can make for extremely uncomfortable reading.
Written by award winning American journalists, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, it would be easy to disregard the substaive scientific evidence put forward as non-applicable to any non-US family; but that would be counterproductuve - besides, some of the suggestions make a strange kind of sense. Like our fetish for heavily praising our offspring for fear that any negative commentary may make they less confident in this harsh world - but in fact, in doing so, we are potentially making things worse, not better...
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