Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five

by John Medina

This overarching goal predicts many things, and here’s the most important: If you want a well-educated child, you must create an environment of safety. When the brain’s safety needs are met, it will allow its neurons to moonlight in algebra classes.

It’s not a trivial issue. The average youngster in 2008 sent and received 2,272 texts per month, about 80 per day. By 2009, 27 percent of the words they encountered came directly from a computer.

Whoa!