A review by librarystax
The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children by Alison Gopnik

2.0

Took me forever to read. Wasn’t bad, but I don’t really know what I learned from it. I liked the studies and the argument against “parenting” and for allowing more play and exploration. However, where some NF books seem to harp on the same point over and over again and you can’t miss it, this one seems to have a lot of different things going on and I’m not sure I quite know what the point was. Plus there’s some parts that seem pretty far left field, and the solutions given, though I agree with them, seem to sometimes focus more on legislative and societal shifts required instead of things one can simply implement at home.