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To what extent do our parenting practices help or hinder our children? As parents, how much influence do we have over what kind of people our children will grow up to be? In the follow-up to her critically acclaimed Our Babies, Ourselves, Cornell anthropologist Meredith Small now takes on these and other crucial questions about the development of preschool children aged one to six.“A revealing perspective on how and why we raise children as we do.” — Booklist While Our Babies, Ourselves explored the physical and cultural preconceptions behind child-rearing and offered new clues to parenting practices that might be detrimental to a baby's best interest, Kids delves even deeper. Unraveling the deep-seated notions prescribed in most parenting books, Kids combines the latest scientific research on human evolution and biology with Small's own keen observations of various cultures for a lively, eye-opening view of early childhood in America. Small not only reveals how children in this age group socialize and absorb the rules that underlie the societies they live in; she also explains the extent to which parents enhance or hold back the emotional and psychological growth of their kids. In

Who reads Kids : How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Young Children?

Author

Meredith F Small

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307765499

Category

science

Subjects

Family & Relationships, Psychology, Home & Lifestyle

Rating

3.85 / 5 (94 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14