The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship Between Parents and Children Irish GMC Publications

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The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship Between Parents and Children Irish GMC PublicationsIn The Gardener and the Carpenter, 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". 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 multibillion dollar industry surrounding it have