NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
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In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that matter? Why do cross-racial friendships decrease in schools that are more integrated? If 98% of kids reflect lying is morally incorrect, then why do 98% of kids lie? What’s the single most vital thing that helps infants learn language?
NurtureShock is a groundbreaking collaboration between award-winning science journalists
Nothing like a parenting manual, the authors’ work is an insightful exploration of themes and issues that transcend children’s (and adults’) lives.
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Nurture Shock is the most shocking book on parenting I have ever seen. Chesterton’s characterization of materialists in that they have a “superiority complex with arrested development”, characterizes the authors of this work very well.
We live in what can only be called “progressive” times. One of the root assumptions of our scientistic culture is that the more we learn, the more we know, the better we are. This scientism, that has been alternative up momentum since Bacon’s Novum Organum, has wreaked havoc on our civilization. The inductive method, though wonderful nearly to the point of miraculous for medicine and equipment, has been horrendously misapplied to humanity. Through a long progression of philosophers from Kant, Locke and Hegel, through the utilitarians, Bentham and Mill, up through the modern Atheists like Feuerbach, Comte and Nietzsche, we have increasingly applied the inductive method to humanity. Scientific thinking has its limits and they don’t extend into the realm of human scenery. Aristotle called Metaphysics the highest philosophy, in a different category than the lower Physics and the still lower Mathematics.
Like a frog place into cold water that is slowly heated, we have not noticed that the waters have come to a boil. The authors of this terribly misguided assessment of “the new thinking on children” place forwards the fruits of the tree of insanity. They too seem to be helpless victims being whisked along the rapids in the giant river of pseudo-science perversely applied to humanity; this river reliable for the tortuous attempts at utopia grounded in Marx’s material dialectic, reliable for 200 million violent deaths in the last century alone, and sure to be the root of countless more this century.
“Never before in the history of the world was there so much knowledge; and never before so small coming to the knowledge of the Truth. Never before so much straining for life; never before so many miserable lives. Never before so much science; never before was it used so for the destruction of human life.” Philosopher/Theologian FJS, 1933)
There is no doubt that the authors used mountains of research data to draw their preposterous conclusions that defy the gravity of truth like a blimp filled with the helium of deceit. But to know this simple fact would render this book as invisible as the emperors new cloths: Nearly all research done in education and in the social sciences contain not a fleabite of truth in accurately describing human scenery or the truth about humanity. I realize that appearances can be deceiving, or how could so many give credence to such nonsense as is printed in this book. But humanity is not reducible to a set controlled experiments that attempt to measure a stimulus and response. My children are so much more than that and so are yours!
In the single chapter Can self control be taught?, a down to planet look at this chapter should be enough to debunk the entire thought process behind the book. First of all, the program touted as “so successful is successes itself out of being” is an oxymoron. Second of all, that the essential measuring stick is the federal guidelines for “at risk” and the marker for not being “at risk” is based on the standardized test that is a terrible joke for all who can see clearly how our public schools have failed our children. It is less apparent in wealthy areas, but the inefficacy of public schooling really becomes transparent in the inner city and poor rural communities.
In regards to the additional ludicrous chapters, a veritable book of repudiation could easily be written. Just a few notes here: The problems of Public Education are not explainable by the absurd reduction of the circadian clock. It is not a sign of respect when your teenager argues with you. Parents, in all-purpose, do not teach their children to lie. White parents talking to their children about race won’t start to ameliorate our social ills. Praising your child for the right deed, in the right manner and in the right amount will not cause problems for him, it is the fact that we have shifted our focus away from character to towards self esteem building that has made a mountain of problems for us.
The over all problem of this book is that it is based on a material understanding of humanity. Humans are not reducible to the pseudo scientific research open in this laughable explanation of children and child rearing. The last 5000 years of human history have preserved for us the collective wisdom of the greatest minds in history, forged in blood, sweat and tears. When it comes to raising children, what has been, is and will be vital is to like them with all our hearts, nurture them with wholesome and healthy activities, and to instill in them the seven virtues. Teach them to make decisions using wisdom to guide justice, courage and moderation, encompassed in Faith, Hope and Agape .There were, are and will be 7 virtues for us to strive for if we are going to cultivate ourselves and become what we were meant to become.
No amount of scientific research can change what it is to be human and as we learn more fully what it means to be human, it will not be guided by thinking as silly as is open in Nurture Shock, but as a further and deeper understanding of how the 7 virtues guide us to our fullest potential. Read this book as an example of what has gone so terribly incorrect with how we raise our children and return to the basics.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I find this book “incredible,” all right. Incredible that huge variable could go unmentioned in a “scientific” “objective” “research-centered” review of what makes our kids tick/sick. The book contains much that is useful so I won’t rehash.
I want to point out the glaring omission in the copious statistics open: WORKING MOTHERS are not factored into any of the research reviewed. Nor is the effect of daily chaos, frantic, rush-rush family tree life calculated in the statistical analyses. eg, sibling fighting upsets mom. Driving kids home,she holds phone up so study leaders can hear the volume and acrimony in back seat. Wait! Mom, turns out, is a PSYCHIATRIST. Additional moms are top lawyers, professors, etc.
Would families be super-stessed; moms exhausted and desperate;teens mad, risk taking,rebellious; kids obese, tired, aggressive (test taking, school fights, IQ tests, bullying, losing sleep, activities, etc) if life slowed down? I’m just asking. This book doesn’t. I looked in pointer. Nothing under “Effective Mother.”
This suggests that NUTURESHOCK starts with a “clogged” mind, an “agenda” the authors themselves may not be aware of. Incredible, indeed, that media and propaganda have all but extinguished the obvious. When modern parents reflect they want to do “what is best” for their (quote) “adored” offsprings’ health and well-being (the supposed mindset of the parents in these studies), are they kidding themselves? Is it only the over-60’s who know there is another way? And when all of us antiques are dead and gone, will a name “reflect outside the box” and, Eureka! learn The Family tree.
Have you visited a nursing home recently? The family tree, biologically, socially, anthropologically, you-name-it, is what it’s all about, in the end (and in the beginning).
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
NurtureShock: New Thinking About ChildrenThis was a very disappointing buy. I couldn’t even end reading it. Just a lot of facile conclusions based on a few studies here and there which were not strong enough evidence to support the broad generalizations. The authors present themselves as experts yet had no literary credentials to engender trust that they had made a serious study of their theme or that they would have the ability to really evaluate the research. Not worth the time or money. My children are grown so I haven’t been investigating what’s available, but there have got to be much better child rearing guides out there. These folks must have a fantastic publicity agent.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The book is honestly a waste. It generalizes and makes the assumption that everyone reading this book is upper middle class white American.
There is a chapter on how intelligence tests miss some bright students who should be attending gifted programs. The reason gifted programs are excellent is because they have money and excellent teachers. Who cares what an upper-class family tree is missing because they fail the gifted test early? The resources of the gifted programs should be available to every child, not the richest. I know there are scholarships but persons go to very few students. Most of the students in the gifted programs are wealthy. Take the money from gifted programs and give it to the school district.
Read Jonathon Kozol’s book Bring shame on of the Nation. It talks about how quickly teachers (usually young, fresh out of college Teach for America candidates) burn out in economically disadvantaged schools while parents and local taxpayers find under-the-table ways to route all their money to the wealthy neighborhood schools where their rich kids go.
The chapter on race was a huge generalization, a la “If you talk to your kids about race, they will be friends with additional races.” It never mentions how you should teach your kids to admit their economic status. Nor does it talk about how people should celebrate their family tree tales and reflect about their heritage as more than race.
There are some excellent points about praise but I’ve already read them years earlier in Alfie Kohn’s book Unconditional Parenting, which I establish much more appealing. Read that as a replacement for.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Well pleased with this product. The book was what we expected and arrived in a timely manner.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5