The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They DoSimon and Schuster, 25 oct 2011 - 482 páginas A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK How much credit do parents deserve when their children turn out welt? How much blame when they turn out badly? Judith Rich Harris has a message that will change parents' lives: The "nurture assumption" -- the belief that what makes children turn out the way they do, aside from their genes, is the way their parents bring them up -- is nothing more than a cultural myth. This electrifying book explodes some of our unquestioned beliefs about children and parents and gives us a radically new view of childhood. Harris looks with a fresh eye at the real lives of real children to show that it is what they experience outside the home, in the company of their peers, that matters most, Parents don't socialize children; children socialize children. With eloquence and humor, Judith Harris explains why parents have little power to determine the sort of people their children will become. The Nurture Assumption is an important and entertaining work that brings together insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, primatology, and evolutionary biology to offer a startling new view of who we are and how we got that way. |
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... older version : heredity and environment . ” " A sea - changing book . " -Carol Tavris , The New York Times -Ellen Goodman , The Boston Globe " Harris's book is well written , toughly argued , filled with telling anecdotes and biting ...
... older version : heredity and environment . ” " A sea - changing book . " -Carol Tavris , The New York Times -Ellen Goodman , The Boston Globe " Harris's book is well written , toughly argued , filled with telling anecdotes and biting ...
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... older children but not to younger ones , or that happens more and more as children get older . I'm talking about something that begins as soon as children go out of the house and find themselves in a place where there are other children ...
... older children but not to younger ones , or that happens more and more as children get older . I'm talking about something that begins as soon as children go out of the house and find themselves in a place where there are other children ...
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... older peers . Children who are not exposed to a full - blown grammatical language from adults can create one among themselves . And children of immigrants pick up language from the playground so well that they are soon ridiculing their ...
... older peers . Children who are not exposed to a full - blown grammatical language from adults can create one among themselves . And children of immigrants pick up language from the playground so well that they are soon ridiculing their ...
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... older people to take care of them . In every society , babies must learn the local language and customs and form working relationships with the other members of their household . They must learn that the world has rules and that they ...
... older people to take care of them . In every society , babies must learn the local language and customs and form working relationships with the other members of their household . They must learn that the world has rules and that they ...
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... older daughter hardly ever wanted to do anything that her father and I didn't want her to do . My younger daughter often did . Raising the first was easy ; raising the second was , um , interesting . My Uncle Ben , who had no children ...
... older daughter hardly ever wanted to do anything that her father and I didn't want her to do . My younger daughter often did . Raising the first was easy ; raising the second was , um , interesting . My Uncle Ben , who had no children ...
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Other Times Other Places Chapter 6 Human Nature | |
Us and Them | |
Growing | |
Dysfunctional Families and Problem Kids | |
What Parents Can | |
The Nurture Assumption on Trial | |
Personality and Birth Order | |
Testing Theories of Child Development | |
Notes | |
References | |
In the Company of Children | |
The Transmission of Culture | |
Gender Rules | |
Schools of Children | |
Acknowledgments | |
Index | |
About the Author | |
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The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and ... Judith Rich Harris Vista previa restringida - 2009 |
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