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63 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 10h \ on: Parenting Today charts_and_numbers
We were fortunate to read Emily Oster’s excellent parenting books and Bryan Caplan’s. They’re both economists who dug into the evidence for most of these things and generally found that the claims are wildly overstated, if not outright false.
Our takeaway was that we can basically parent how we want and things will probably work out.
I need to read these books.
It really is like that, each family has its traditions and customs, each person educates, loves and teaches in a different way and that is fine (as long as your child's life is not in danger) nobody has to give an opinion about the rest and sometimes family members tend to be the ones who most point out your way of raising children.
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The Caplan book is probably the most relevant because the others are mostly about pregnancy through early childhood.
There’s at least one good episode of Econtalk with Caplan talking about his book.
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