NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

One of the most influential books about children ever published, Nurture Shock offers a revolutionary new perspective on children that upends a library's worth of conventional wisdom. With impeccable storytelling and razor-sharp analysis, the authors demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science have been overlooked. Nothing like a parenting manual, NurtureShock gets to the core of how we grow, learn and live.

Released in hardcover in September 2009, Nurture Shock remained on the New York Times best seller list for three months, and was one of Amazon's best selling books for 2009. The book has become a worldwide phenomenon with editions published around the world - in fifteen languages, to date.

In addition to Bronson and Merryman's writings on praise -- first made famous in New York magazine -- there are nine more equally groundbreaking chapters. Among the topics covered:

Why the most brutal person in a child's life is often a sibling, and how a single aspect of their preschool-aged play can determine their relationship as adults.

When is it too soon - or too late - to teach a child about race? Children in diverse schools are less likely to have a cross-racial friendship, not more - so is school diversity backfiring?

Millions of families are fighting to get their kids into private schools and advanced programs as early as possible. But schools are missing the best kids, 73% of the time - the new neuroscience explains why.

Why are kids - even those from the best of homes - still aggressive and cruel? The answer is found in a rethinking of parental conflict, discipline, television's unexpected influence, and social dominance.

Parents are desperate to jump-start infants' language skills. Recently, scientists have discovered a series of natural techniques that are astonishing in their efficacy - it's not baby videos, sign language, or even the richness of language exposure. It's nothing you've heard before.

• Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road From The Late Teens Through The Twenties
• Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs
• Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less
• The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children
• Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded): How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
• The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
• All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
• Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells us About Raising Successful Children (APA Lifetools: Books for the General Public)
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
• Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing