The gardener and the carpenter : what the new science of child development tells us about the relationship between parents and children /
Alison Gopnik.
- First Edition.
- x, 302 pages ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-287) and index.
Introduction: The parent paradoxes -- Against parenting -- The evolution of childhood -- The evolution of love -- Learning through looking -- Learning through listening -- The work of play -- Growing up -- The future and the past : children and technology -- The value of children.
"Alison Gopnik, a leading developmental psychologist, illuminates the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective"--