Parentology : everything you wanted to know about the science of raising children but were too exhau...
Parentology : everything you wanted to know about the science of raising children but were too exhau...
Parentology : everything you wanted to know about the science of raising children but were too exhausted to ask / Dalton Conley ; with E & Yo Xing, Heyno Augustus, Eisner Alexander, Weiser Knuckles, Jeremijenko-Conley.
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
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G 2015/1431
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Language
English
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Physical content
ix, 237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
What not to expect when you're expecting -- Tying the knot (and I don't mean marriage or the umbilicus) -- But maybe you should name your boy Sue: what's not in a name -- The best thesaurus is a human thesaurus: how to read to your kids -- Practicing the delicate arts of extortion and bribery (how...
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2014.
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Summary
Outlines an engaged approach to child-rearing that is based on strategies for fostering child creativity and confidence, describing the author's experiences with such methods as bribing, conditioning psychology, and placebo medications.
All parenting is about experimenting (whether you know it or not). It begins on the day our kids start to teethe, as we do backflips to distract them from the pain, and continues all the way through their teenage years, when we bribe them with video games to extract a few minutes of math. Now comes a book from a real scientist who has taken that ex...
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Parentology : everything you wanted to know about the science of raising children but were too exhausted to ask / Dalton Conley ; with E & Yo Xing, Heyno Augustus, Eisner Alexander, Weiser Knuckles, Jeremijenko-Conley.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-237).
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G 2015/1431
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74VKO0AD6MZl
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ISBN
1476712670 (ebook)
9781476712659 (hardback)
1476712654 (hardback)
9781476712673 (ebook)
DDC
649.1
MMS ID
991022630749702626
