In their newest book, NurtureShock, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman present evidence to debunk much of our accepted thinking about children. For instance, that praise is always good (it isn’t) or that kids just don’t lie (four-year olds apparently lie once every hour).
The book opens with an amusing story about a doorman at a certain nightclub in the late 1960s who looked a lot like Cary Grant and proceeds to relate this to the authors’ underlying assumption for ‘why our instincts about children can be so off the mark’. Not to worry – the rest of the book’s thought process isn’t as seemingly outlandish as this one.
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