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stuhlsem's review
4.0
When my mom saw I was reading this, she thought I was pregnant. It was really hard to convince her that I was ONLY reading it because it sounded interesting on NPR and I like applied economics.
I was expecting Freakonomics with baby anecdotes, and it didn't especially deliver on that front. There were some pretty hilarious child stories, such as how Child No. 1 won't start eating her dessert until everybody else is finished so that there will never be a time when somebody else has more dessert than she does.
One valuable economic child-training tip was to make sweets and TV something desirable. The more your children want them, the more concessions you'll be able to drag out of them in exchange for 30 minutes of TV or a fun-sized snickers bar.
I was expecting Freakonomics with baby anecdotes, and it didn't especially deliver on that front. There were some pretty hilarious child stories, such as how Child No. 1 won't start eating her dessert until everybody else is finished so that there will never be a time when somebody else has more dessert than she does.
One valuable economic child-training tip was to make sweets and TV something desirable. The more your children want them, the more concessions you'll be able to drag out of them in exchange for 30 minutes of TV or a fun-sized snickers bar.
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