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To what extent do our parenting practices help or hinder our children? As parents, how much influence do we have over what kind of people our children will grow up to be? In the followup to her critically acclaimed Our Babies, Ourselves, Cornell anthropologist Meredith Small now takes on these and other crucial questions about the development of preschool children aged one to six.A revealing perspective on how and why we raise children as we do. BooklistWhile Our Babies, Ourselves explored the physical and cultural preconceptions behind childrearing and offered new clues to parenting practices that might be detrimental to a baby's best interest, Kids delves even deeper. Unraveling the deepseated notions prescribed in most parenting books, Kidscombines the latest scientific research on human evolution and biology with Small's own keen observations of various cultures for a lively, eyeopening view of early childhood in America. Small not only reveals how children in this age group socialize and absorb the rules that underlie the societies they live in; she also explains the extent to which parents enhance or hold back the emotional and psychological growth of their kids.In her engaging style, Small blends memorable accounts from her own experiences raising a preschooler with fascinating findings from her pioneering crosscultural research, which spanned the country as well as the globe. Covering myriad aspects of the miraculous process of human growth, Small breaks new ground on topics such as why childhood is the optimum time for acquiring language skills; how children absorb knowledge and learn to solve problems; how empathy, and morality in general, make their way into a child's psyche; and the ways in which gender impacts identity. Underlying each chapter is an illuminating discussion of how the roles parents assign children in America shape the selfesteem and selfimage of a future generation.Rich with vivid anecdotes and profound insight, Kids will cause readers to rethink their own parenting styles, along with every ageold assumption about how to raise a happy, healthy kid.
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