{"product_id":"the-gardener-and-the-carpenter-what-the-new-science-of-child-development-tells-us-about-the-relationship-between-parents-and-children-9781250132253","title":"The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship Between Parents and Children","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e The Gardener and the Carpenter, \u003c\/i\u003e Alison Gopnik, one of the world's leading child psychologists, illuminates the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective and shatters the myth of \"good parenting\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaring 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Gardener and the Carpenter\u003c\/i\u003e, the pioneering developmental psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik argues that the familiar twenty-first-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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing 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 to be very different both from their parents and from each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGopnik, Alison:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAlison Gopnik\u003c\/b\u003e, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophical Baby \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Scientist in the Crib\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50616699978002,"sku":"9781250132253","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8dd1859f-86ca-4146-b38e-c92e3a1b81e1.jpg?v=1732509305","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-gardener-and-the-carpenter-what-the-new-science-of-child-development-tells-us-about-the-relationship-between-parents-and-children-9781250132253","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}