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.
- ISBN10 0446504122
- ISBN13 9780446504126
- Publish Date 1 September 2009
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Time Warner Trade Publishing
- Imprint Warner Books Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English