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1) The gardener and the carpenter: what the new science of child development tells us about the relationship between parents and children

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Gopnik, Alison

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[2016]

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x, 302 pages ; 22 cm

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"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 thirty 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, the pioneering...

2) The scientist in the crib: what early learning tells us about the mind

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Gopnik, Alison

Pub. Date

2001

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xv, 279 pages ; 21 cm

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A review of research on learning and infancy, drawn from hundreds of case studies, shows how children by the age of three are virtual learning machines and discusses how parents can help this learning process.

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Alison Gopnik

1) The gardener and the carpenter: what the new science of child development tells us about the relationship between parents and children

2) The scientist in the crib: what early learning tells us about the mind