Summary of Alison Gopnik's The Gardener And The Carpenter

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #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-s