Nurture Shock

Someone just recommended this book and I checked it out and it looks very good. I like that they include the science, but also make it friendly and annecdotal to furthur illustrate their points. Just based on the reviews, particularly customer reviews, it looks really interesting. They say many of modern society's most popular strategies for raising children are in fact backfiring because key points in the science of child development and behavior have been overlooked. Two errant assumptions are responsible for current distorted child-rearing habits, dysfunctional school programs and wrongheaded social policies: first, things work in children the same way they work in adults and, second, positive traits necessarily oppose and ward off negative behavior. It covers things like excessive praise backfiring(I knew that!), sibling relationships, parent/teen relationships, sleep, why baby einstein etc doesn't work (I knew that!), IQ testing, talking about race relations, etc. etc.

I know my birthday is far far away, but I've added this book to my amazon wish list!

I want this book (I need this book!)

If anyone still has to get me a Christmas present yet, this book would be a good one. Amazon shows used copies pretty cheap also.

Edit: Since someone asked, the book is about CONTROLLING your fertility-that means being able to control when you have a baby and when you DON'T.