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 30 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, pioneering developmental psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik argues that the familiar 21st-century picture of parents and children is profoundly wrong - it's…mehr
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 30 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, pioneering developmental psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik argues that the familiar 21st-century picture of parents and children is profoundly wrong - it's not just based on bad science, it's bad for kids and parents, too. Drawing on the study of human evolution and her own cutting-edge scientific research into how children learn, Gopnik shows that although caring for children is profoundly important, it is not a matter of shaping them to turn out a particular way. Children are designed to be messy and unpredictable, playful and imaginative, and very different both from their parents and from each other. The variability and flexibility of childhood lets them innovate, create, and survive in an unpredictable world. "Parenting" won't make children learn - but caring parents let children learn by creating secure, loving environments.
Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of The Philosophical Baby and The Scientist in the Crib.
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CONTENTS Introduction: The Parent Paradoxes From Parenting to Being a Parent The Paradoxes The Paradoxes of Love The Paradoxes of Learning The Uniqueness of Childhood The Child Garden 1. Against Parenting In Praise of Mess The Ideas That Die in Our Stead Exploring vs. Exploiting Protective Parents 2. The Evolution of Childhood Two Pictures Beyond Just-So Stories The Paradox of Immaturity Learning, Culture, and Feedback Loops Variability: The Unknown Unknowns Back to Parenting 3. The Evolution of Love Pair-Bonding: It's Complicated Varieties of Love Grandmothers Alloparents The Commitment Puzzle The Roots of Commitment The Costs of Commitment Love and Parenting 4. Learning Through Looking The Little Actors The Myth of Mirror Neurons The Birth of Imitation Learning About the World When Children Are Better Than Adults Overimitation Rituals Imitation Across Cultures Doing Things Together 5. Learning Through Listening Learning from Testimony Being Sure of Yourself Who You Gonna Believe? Telling Stories Questions and Explanations Why Ask Why? The Essential Question Letting the Dude Figure It Out 6. The Work of Play Rough-and-Tumble Rats Getting Into Everything Pop-Beads and Popper Making Believe Bayesian Babies Kinds of Minds Dancing Robots Beyond Miss Havisham 7. Growing Up Apprenticeship Scholastic Skills Thinking Differently Attention Deficit Disorder Schooling and Learning The People in the Playground The Two Systems of Adolescence 8. The Future and the Past: Children and Technology The Reading Brain The World of Screens Eden and Mad Max The Technological Ratchet The City of the Web What to Do? 9. The Value of Children Private Ties and Public Policy Finding the Money The Old and the Young Work, Play, Art, Science Conclusion Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
CONTENTS Introduction: The Parent Paradoxes From Parenting to Being a Parent The Paradoxes The Paradoxes of Love The Paradoxes of Learning The Uniqueness of Childhood The Child Garden 1. Against Parenting In Praise of Mess The Ideas That Die in Our Stead Exploring vs. Exploiting Protective Parents 2. The Evolution of Childhood Two Pictures Beyond Just-So Stories The Paradox of Immaturity Learning, Culture, and Feedback Loops Variability: The Unknown Unknowns Back to Parenting 3. The Evolution of Love Pair-Bonding: It's Complicated Varieties of Love Grandmothers Alloparents The Commitment Puzzle The Roots of Commitment The Costs of Commitment Love and Parenting 4. Learning Through Looking The Little Actors The Myth of Mirror Neurons The Birth of Imitation Learning About the World When Children Are Better Than Adults Overimitation Rituals Imitation Across Cultures Doing Things Together 5. Learning Through Listening Learning from Testimony Being Sure of Yourself Who You Gonna Believe? Telling Stories Questions and Explanations Why Ask Why? The Essential Question Letting the Dude Figure It Out 6. The Work of Play Rough-and-Tumble Rats Getting Into Everything Pop-Beads and Popper Making Believe Bayesian Babies Kinds of Minds Dancing Robots Beyond Miss Havisham 7. Growing Up Apprenticeship Scholastic Skills Thinking Differently Attention Deficit Disorder Schooling and Learning The People in the Playground The Two Systems of Adolescence 8. The Future and the Past: Children and Technology The Reading Brain The World of Screens Eden and Mad Max The Technological Ratchet The City of the Web What to Do? 9. The Value of Children Private Ties and Public Policy Finding the Money The Old and the Young Work, Play, Art, Science Conclusion Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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