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The Child Code
Understanding Your Child's Unique Nature for Happier, More Effective Parenting
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With few exceptions, parenting books, websites, and podcasts emphasize the critical role of the parent in shaping a child’s destiny. But the obsession with parenting ignores a fundamental biological fact: that genetics affect every aspect of human behavior, and every child is uniquely “coded” with predispositions that affect everything from fearfulness, to impulsivity, to happiness.
In The Child Code, award-winning professor Dr. Danielle Dick draws from her research in developmental behavior genetics to debunk the myth that parenting techniques alone can determine a child’s behavior and future. Dr. Dick introduces readers to the 3 E’s that underlie each child’s unique predisposition—extraversion (Ex), emotionality (Em), and effortful control (Ef)—and shows that, in fact, the key to raising successful adults isn’t to try harder to mold them, but to adapt your parenting strategies to the way they are wired. This powerful and fresh approach not only diminishes friction and stress in families, but sets children up for true, authentic success in life.
Each chapter unpacks the science behind this unique approach, and provides practical, individualized strategies for parents to support their child’s strengths and to help them navigate their challenges.
Reassuring, with real takeaways, The Child Code offers parents an inspiring message: Their biggest job is to help their children become who they were literally born to be.
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Release date
September 14, 2021 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780593192269
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780593192269
- File size: 978 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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November 1, 2021
Dick (psychology, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.) draws on her experience as both a parent and an expert in genetics and child behavior. Here she asserts that answer to the question of nurture vs. nature is "both/and" and that nature's influence has been underplayed. "Genes place a leash on environmental influence, but it's an elastic leash," she writes. Readers learn how genetic code shapes development, personality, behavior, and interaction. Dick contends that children respond to their environment and their parents based on their unique temperaments, and the resulting complex behaviors are based on the combination of hundreds, perhaps thousands of genes. Dick's child-rearing strategies are based on "the three E's" of temperament: extraversion, emotionality, and effortful control. The book explores mental illness (e.g., anxiety, depression, oppositional defiant disorder, ADHD) in a final section; none of it deals specifically with autism, which seems like an oversight. VERDICT There's much to glean from this scientifically informed tome.
Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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