Summary of Alison Gopnik's The Gardener And The Carpenter

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1The word parenting first appeared in America in 1958. It is a poor fit to the scientific reality, as parents are not designed to shape their children’s lives. They are designed to provide the next generation with a protected space in which they can produce new ways of thinking and acting that are unlike any that we would have anticipated beforehand.
#2 There is little evidence that parents’ decisions about co-sleeping or letting their children cry it out has any long-term effects on their children’s adult traits. The American society, which is centered around parenting, provides less support for children than any other developed country.
#3 The rise of parenting is similar to what happened to food in America around the same time period. We have replaced traditional eating habits with prescriptions. What was once a matter of experience has become a matter of expertise.
#4 Children are undeniably messy. They are incontrovertibly and undeniably messy. Whatever the rewards of being a parent may be, tidiness is not one of them. In fact, in the perpetual academic search for funding, I’ve wondered whether I could get the military to consider weaponizing toddler chaos.

Sujets

• Parenting
• Général

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 13 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669352990
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Alison Gopnik's The Gardener and the Carpenter
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The word parenting first appeared in America in 1958. It is a poor fit to the scientific reality, as parents are not designed to shape their children’s lives. They are designed to provide the next generation with a protected space in which they can produce new ways of thinking and acting that are unlike any that we would have anticipated beforehand.

#2

There is little evidence that parents’ decisions about co-sleeping or letting their children cry it out has any long-term effects on their children’s adult traits. The American society, which is centered around parenting, provides less support for children than any other developed country.

#3

The rise of parenting is similar to what happened to food in America around the same time period. We have replaced traditional eating habits with prescriptions. What was once a matter of experience has become a matter of expertise.

#4

Children are undeniably messy. They are incontrovertibly and undeniably messy. Whatever the rewards of being a parent may be, tidiness is not one of them. In fact, in the perpetual academic search for funding, I’ve wondered whether I could get the military to consider weaponizing toddler chaos.

#5

The parents of a risk-taking child may live with their hearts in their mouths, but they should know that this is what allows their children to thrive in an unpredictable world.

#6

The strategy for human success is to generate many different possibilities, at least partly at random, and then preserve the ones that work. However, we don’t entirely eliminate the alternatives. We keep generating alternative possibilities to keep in reserve.

#7

The trade-off between exploration and exploitation is what makes child-rearing so difficult. You want your children to explore, but you also want them to be effective adults. One way to solve this problem is to alternate between periods of exploration and exploitation.

#8

The mechanisms of mess extend far beyond the variability in the genes themselves. In early childhood, complex interactions between genes and environments lead to even more variability. Some children are resilient; they come out pretty well in both good and bad circumstances. Other children are more sensitive to their surroundings, and they do especially well in rich circumstances.

#9

The nonshared environment is a way of describing all the factors that influence children other than their genes and the shared experiences they have as members of the same family. It is these factors that determine how children turn out.

#10

Being a parent is different from being a person who parents – it’s just as hard, but with a different set of responsibilities and expectations. The unconditional, individual commitment we have for each child we care for gives them a chance to be intellectually messy, explore before they have to exploit, and let their ideas die in their place.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

We should understand where our children come from to better understand them. Our evolutionary history explains how our brains and minds work, as well as how our stomachs and skeletons work.

#2

The picture of the Hunt Primeval is not how human beings actually evolved. The most significant changes in our evolution may have been between bubbes and babies, not between men and mammoths.

#3

The market is where I forage for fruits and roots and nuts, much like my early human ancestors. Humans are the only primate that continues to live, thrive, and take care of children well past the age when they can no longer bear children themselves.