Nurtureshock : new thinking about children
Nurture shock
Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Twelve, 2009.
- xi, 336 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-327) and index.
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.