Nurtureshock: New Thinking About Children

Destined to become one of the most provocative and influential books about children ever, NURTURESHOCK offers a revolutionary new perspective that upends a library’s worth of conventional wisdom. The authors' New Tort magazine article, “The Inverse Power of Praise,” changed how parents talked to their children literally overnight. Now, in this book, Bronson and Merryman’s insights on praise arefollowed by groundbreaking topic after topic covering all aspects of childrearing.Discover:. Why the most brutal person in a child’s life is often a sibling-and how asingle aspect of preschool-age play can determine adult relationships.. The ideal time to teach a child about race-and why school diversity maybe backfiring.• Why private schools and advanced programs are missing the brightest kids-and how you can counter this phenomenon.. Why kids, even from the best of homes, can still be cruel-and how parental conflict, discipline, and television can modify behavior.. How to jump-start infants’ language skills-with a series of natural techniques that are astonishing in their efficacy... and nothing you’ve seen before.