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Cover of The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children by Alison Gopnik

The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children

by Alison Gopnik

Alison Gopnik's The Gardener and the Carpenter is the rare parenting book that questions the whole project of 'parenting' as a verb. Drawing on developmental science, she argues our job is to make a rich environment, not to engineer a particular product.
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