Nurtureshock : new thinking about children /
Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
- New York: Twelve, 2009
- xi, 336 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-327) and index
The authors discuss the inverse power of praise, why insufficient sleep adversely affects kids capacity to learn , why white parents don't talk about race , why kids lie, why evalaution methods for "giftedness" and accompanying programs don't work, and why siblings really fight.