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UC Berkeley Professor Alison Gopnik’s keynote presentation at MoMiCon 2016: The “Parenting” Misconception: Why “Parenting” is a scientifically inaccurate and practically dubious way to understand the relations between children and the people who care for them.
This exciting book by three pioneers in the new field of cognitive science discusses important discoveries about how much babies and young children know and learn, and how much parents naturally teach them.
In the last decade there has been a revolution in our understanding of the minds of infants and young children. We used to believe that babies were irrational, and that their thinking and experience were limited.
Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call “parenting” is a surprisingly new invention.
New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger ages, may backfire.
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