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Parenting Experts - Their Advice, the Research, and Getting It Right (Hardcover)
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Parenting Experts - Their Advice, the Research, and Getting It Right (Hardcover)
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Compares the parenting advice of five well-known experts. Most
parents lack the time, training, and other resources needed to
consult the extensive research on parenting that has been produced
by scientific study. Instead, many rely on advice from a few
well-known authorities in popular books, newspaper columns, and
other media. This work takes a critical look at the advice of five
experts - Benjamin Spock, T. Berry Brazelton, James Dobson,
Penelope Leach and John Rosemond - then compares that with the
findings of hundreds of empirical studies on children. The focus is
on major parenting problems, including persistent infant crying,
toilet training, early day care, discipline, adolescent sexuality
education, substance abuse, and the influence of television and
other electronic media. A final chapter summarizes the accuracy of
each expert's advice compared with research findings, points out
the common ground between experts, and summarizes their major
strategies and biases. In some cases, a substantial gap exists
between expert advice and scientific research findings. and
students will find this book not only helpful, but also
illuminating. Rankin's meticulous analysis points out areas of
agreement and dispute between some of the most quoted parenting
experts in the field, and, perhaps even more revealing, areas where
their widely quoted pronouncements deviate from research and
clinical evidence. Makes sense of often conflicting parenting
experts and how their advice can clash with scientific research
Offers parents an understanding of 'best practices' as identified
by research. Explains the multitude of elements (other than
research and practice) that shape the advice of experts Focuses on
a critical analysis of the advice of five often conflicting, but
very well known, authors on parenting.
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