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Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
Emily Oster
4.08 AVERAGE
1.22k reviews for:
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
Emily Oster
4.08 AVERAGE
informative
medium-paced
I get why people become frustrated with this book- it’s not really the author's fault that there’s very little good data on anything related to women and children. But I think it’s a decent enough read to learn that 1) a lot of advice people give is scientifically unfounded and 2) the few things that are proven are worth learning about.
informative
medium-paced
I enjoyed Expecting Better and was looking forward to this read. It was good but I think, as the author pointed out at the end that many of the topics in this book were hard to back by evidence and be completely unbiased about compared to some of the topics in Expecting Better. If anything a good read on different perspectives on some common parenting questions/topics.
The latter half of the book petered out a bit—only because there seems not to be much solid data one way or the other on things like screen time or preschool options or the number of children to have. This is overall reassuring which I took as the purpose of the book, but it did feel at times that I could have skipped the second half.
Helpful information but overall not as data based as was originally made to seem
Great post-partum info, and some future parenting tips that will likely come in handy. Per Oster’s usual, great use of data and generalizations to help parse information from a lot of noise.
informative
slow-paced
informative
informative
slow-paced