Act natural : a cultural history of misadventures in parenting /
Why do we read our kids fairy tales about homicidal stepparents? Exhausted, frazzled and at sea after the birth of her two children, Traig began to interrogate the traditional parenting advice she'd been conditioned to accept at face value. The result is a deft, and hilarious, dissection of the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Why do we read our kids fairy tales about homicidal stepparents? Exhausted, frazzled and at sea after the birth of her two children, Traig began to interrogate the traditional parenting advice she'd been conditioned to accept at face value. The result is a deft, and hilarious, dissection of the history of Western parenting, moving from ancient Rome to Puritan New England to the Dr. Spock craze of mid-century America. Have our techniques actually evolved into something better? Or are we still just scrambling in the dark? |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780062469809 0062469800 9780062469816 0062469819 |