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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.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: ix, 237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1476712654 (hardback)
  • 9781476712659 (hardback)
Subject(s):
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 else are American children supposed to catch up to the Finnish people in math?) -- Get them the puppy! Get them the puppy! -- Shut the f* up, Dad! Discipline (or lack thereof) -- Turn your feral child into a nice American capitalist (you know you want to) -- If it's organic, don't panic and other tips I learned in Berkeley for drugging one's kids -- Go ahead and get divorced, your kids' genes will never notice.
Summary: 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 experi-mentation further and deployed every last piece of data on his own kids so that the rest of us can benefit from the results. Emboldened by his keen understanding of cutting-edge research, Dalton Conley makes a series of unorthodox parenting moves. Just to name a few: He bribes his kids to do math because a study in Mexico indicates that conditional cash transfers improve kids' educational achievement. He gives his children weird names to teach them impulse control because evidence shows that kids with unusual names learn not to react when their peers tease them. Conley tries a placebo on his son when the school wants to medicate him for ADHD, because studies prove the placebo effects are almost as big as those of the actual drugs. Parentology hilariously reports the results of Conley's experiments as a father, demonstrating that, ultimately, what matters most is love and engagement.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this eye-opening, witty book, an award-winning scientist offers his unorthodox but highly engaged approach to childrearing--and reveals groundbreaking research and strategies to produce creative and confident children.

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 experi­mentation further and deployed every last piece of data on his own kids so that the rest of us can benefit from the results.

Emboldened by his keen understanding of cutting-edge research, Dalton Conley makes a series of unorthodox parenting moves. Just to name a few: He bribes his kids to do math because a study in Mexico indicates that conditional cash transfers improve kids' educational achievement. He gives his children weird names to teach them impulse control because evidence shows that kids with unusual names learn not to react when their peers tease them. Conley tries a placebo on his son when the school wants to medicate him for ADHD, because studies prove the placebo effects are almost as big as those of the actual drugs.

Parentology hilariously reports the results of Conley's experiments as a father, demonstrating that, ultimately, what matters most is love and engagement. He teaches you everything you need to know about the latest literature on parenting--with lessons that go down easy. You'll be laughing and learning at the same time.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-237).

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 else are American children supposed to catch up to the Finnish people in math?) -- Get them the puppy! Get them the puppy! -- Shut the f* up, Dad! Discipline (or lack thereof) -- Turn your feral child into a nice American capitalist (you know you want to) -- If it's organic, don't panic and other tips I learned in Berkeley for drugging one's kids -- Go ahead and get divorced, your kids' genes will never notice.

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 experi-mentation further and deployed every last piece of data on his own kids so that the rest of us can benefit from the results. Emboldened by his keen understanding of cutting-edge research, Dalton Conley makes a series of unorthodox parenting moves. Just to name a few: He bribes his kids to do math because a study in Mexico indicates that conditional cash transfers improve kids' educational achievement. He gives his children weird names to teach them impulse control because evidence shows that kids with unusual names learn not to react when their peers tease them. Conley tries a placebo on his son when the school wants to medicate him for ADHD, because studies prove the placebo effects are almost as big as those of the actual drugs. Parentology hilariously reports the results of Conley's experiments as a father, demonstrating that, ultimately, what matters most is love and engagement.

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