What You (Really) Need to Know About Parenting – Key Takeaways from Crucial Studies
Four daughters and 400 studies
Parents are supposed to understand their child’s needs and be endlessly supportive, caring and empathic. There’s tremendous pressure and a huge array of theories, fads and pieces of advice. But how do you get your bearings in all this?
Science journalist Tillmann Prüfer is here to help. He reviews studies, asks experts and gets to the bottom of the things we know for sure. Do you need to set an example? Are punishments helpful? How formative is childhood, really? The book touches on the importance of rewards and encouragement, values, emotions, attachment, media consumption, eating habits, friends, siblings, playing and what it means to be a role model. Prüfer helps readers navigate out of the muddle of competing advice and dogmatic thinking, revealing that it’s far more important to spend time with your children than to rigidly adhere to any particular precepts.
- Enlightening, helpful and vividly written
- For readers of Jonathan Haidt and Bas Kast
Tillmann Prüfer heads the ‘family’ section for DIE ZEIT and ZEIT Online. He writes regular features and columns for various publications, including ZEITmagazin and the Handelsblatt and has won numerous prizes for his journalism.
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