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lazydoc98's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
frogs76985's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
nattyg's review against another edition
2.0
Nothing wrong with the book, I just couldn't get into it well enough to finish.
rbogue's review
5.0
When you look at another family (probably on Facebook) and think “they’ve got it together,” do you think that they “come from good stock,” or are you impressed with the matriarch and patriarch’s ability to nurture their children? Would it surprise you to know that the ability to change our children through nurturance is a widely-held but frequently disproved assumption? In The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Judith Rich Harris, with a bit of help from Steven Pinker, explores the impact that parents can have on their children – or not.
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branch_c's review
4.0
Harris is smart, insightful, and I think she's correct. As counterintuitive as most people think it is, it seems parents really don't influence their kids as much as they think - maybe not at all. Unfortunately, Harris also takes a snarky tone for much of the book, which I could have done without. She wants to make it clear that she's not a professional academic; she's skeptical of conclusions reached by investigators using questionable methods and she's critical, rightly so, of media coverage of those conclusions. Her data and logic speaks for itself, so her defensiveness makes the book slightly less enjoyable for me - but that doesn't stop it from being convincing.
emmamaereading's review against another edition
2.5
she makes good points but she could make the same points in fewer words
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