Overview
From age 5 to 12, parenting decisions do not come with the frequency that they do with a baby, but they are almost always more complicated. What's the right kind of school? How do you get them to eat healthily? Should they play a sport? Are you a helicopter parent, a free range parent, a tiger parent, an ostrich parent? Is that last one even a thing? Daily logistical challenges are punctuated by big, consequential decisions that you often have no idea how to think about. Oster outlines a framework and some systems: a way to run your family a bit more like a firm, beginning with the ""Big Picture"" for your family and going on to explain ways to structure your day-to-day, and how to approach big decisions. People will often tell you parenting is a job, albeit an underpaid one where the employees frequently tell you they hate you and you ruined their life. So maybe it's time to start treating it like one.
Full Product Details
Author: Emily Oster
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Imprint: Souvenir Press Ltd
Edition: Main
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 23.20cm
Weight: 0.480kg
ISBN: 9781788165853
ISBN 10: 1788165853
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 12 August 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Praise for Emily Oster * - * A revelation -- Pandora Sykes Most parents say they want happy, well-adjusted, robust kids and there are myriad ways to achieve those results. She's right * The Times * It couldn't be more relevant ... steers clear of recommendations and cast-iron guarantees, instead promising to arm parents with information to make the decisions that are right for them * Daily Telegraph *
Praise for Cribsheet: * - * She has crunched all the statistics on breastfeeding, potty training, working mothers and playgroups and discovered there is no optimal set of choices that will produce the perfect child. Most parents say they want happy, well-adjusted, robust kids and there are myriad ways to achieve those results. She's right -- Alice Thomson * The Times * It couldn't be more relevant ... steers clear of recommendations and cast-iron guarantees, instead promising to arm parents with information to make the decisions that are right for them * Daily Telegraph * A huge relief from the scare stories ... Cribsheet is not another call for the end of helicopter parenting or snowplow parenting or whatever kind of parenting is lighting up social media today, and it's not a call to overthrow medical wisdom; it's a call for parenting with context, and it's freeing * Washington Post * Both refreshing and useful. With so many parenting theories driving us all a bit batty, this is the type of book that we need to help calm things down. * LA Times * The Guilt-Free, Data-Driven Guide to Parenting ... uses science and stats to cut through the confusion of raising a family ... Smart, relatable, and funny * Bloomberg * Praise for Emily Oster: * - * A revelation -- Pandora Sykes I am so grateful for her work -- Amy Schumer
Author Information
Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University and the author of Cribsheet and Expecting Better. She spoke at the 2007 TED conference and has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Esquire. Oster is married to economist Jesse Shapiro and is also the daughter of two economists. She has two children.
