Everything You Wanted to Know about the Science of Raising Children but Were Too Exhausted to Ask
Simon & Schuster
April 2014
On Sale: March 18, 2014
256 pages ISBN: 1476712654 EAN: 9781476712659 Kindle: B00DPM7XBY Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
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.
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