THE GARDENER AND THE CARPENTER

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 thirty years, the concept of parenting and the huge industry surrounding it have transformed child care into obsessive, controlling, and goal-orientated labour intended to create a particular kind of child, and therefore a particular kind of adult. Dra wing on the study of human evolution and her own cutting-edge scientific research into how children learn, Gopnik shows that althoug h caring for...[Llegir més]