One of the most influential books about children ever published, Nurture Shock offers a revolutionary new perspective on children that upends a library"s worth of conventional wisdom. With impeccable storytelling and razor-sharp analysis, the authors demonstrate that many of modern society"s strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring-because key twists in the science have been overlooked. Nothing like a parenting manual, NurtureShock gets to the core of how we grow, learn and live.