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NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children (2009)

by Po Bronson(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0446504122 (ISBN13: 9780446504126)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Twelve

review 1: This is a great book for anyone who works with children, plans to have children, or just interacts with children on a regular or semi-regular basis. The basic premise of the book is that your instincts on how to discipline, encourage, or interact with children are often wrong. The first chapter focuses on the study about how telling children they are smart can be more damaging than beneficial (it is better to praise hard work than inherent intelligence; children who think they are "smart" often are more scared to take academic risks in fear of proving they are not actually smart). The topics range a lot from how to discuss race with children to how to encourage language development. I thought it was really fascinating and would highly recommend it.
review 2:... more> nurture shockChapter 1:Be careful not to only praise your child for ‘being smart’ without demonstrating smartness. More important can be praise for activity, behaviour and especially effort.Chapter 2:Don’t lose an hour of sleep — children need a full night. It’s that hour before bed time where there’s time to let bed time lapse. Chapter 3: White parents tend not to talk about race, but there are good ways of bringing this up with children.Chapter 4: Kids lieChapter 8:There are new pre-school methods that can encourage kids to self-direct their play and become more self-controlling and focused. Tools of the Mind is the main example.Chapter 9: Sometimes more important than not letting kids see parents fighting is to let kids see the resolution to the fight. If just the fight is seen, no lesson can be learned from the loving conclusion.Chapter 10:Goldsteins research about ‘scafolding’ language development. Noticing the changes in a babies babbles as they turn to vowels and vowels-consonant pairs and touching or speaking to the baby directly after those utterances. Especially if the baby is looking at something or pointing, it is good to identify that thing and try to let the baby direct her interest and the parent identify based on that. Also, moving objects in rythym with the sing-song parental speech to help kids identify words. less

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Natasha

I love reading about the current research in this field so this whole book was right up my alley.

Kali

Interesting bits of research sort of cobbled together. Not very cohesive or shockingly new.

manik

This had some eye-opening ideas that I thought made a lot of sense.

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