Shiloh's review
Kids: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Young Children
by Meredith Small
Shiloh's review
Kids: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Young Children by Meredith Small
Shiloh's review
rating:
As a parent in America I sometimes feel like I'm part of some suspicious cult. I have to give up my lifestyle, adhere to a dogma that goes unquestioned among its followers and live in a compound away from the rest of society. This book raises questions about our beliefs regarding childhood. It uses comparative anthropology to show that these beliefs are recent in a social, economic and biological sense. So if you've been downright confused and displaced as a parent, this book is like a little "so there."
