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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
A must read for any new parent. Informative, reassuring, and entertaining - a rare combo for parenting books
If I could change one thing about becoming a parent it would be to read the chapter about breastfeeding before I had my baby. It would have saved me so much pain and guilt. Emily Oster is the eternal slayer of mum guilt.
Felt much less data-based than Expecting Better... Perhaps because things get more complicated as kids get older, but it was less helpful than I'd hoped.
Some chapters were excellent and truly informative (such as the chapter on breastfeeding) while others felt very "light" on actual evidence. I had high expectations after "Expecting Better" but I can understand that this is in many ways a harder book to write. All things parenting are much more difficult to study/research/give advice about than the various aspects of pregnancy, which is more strictly a medical question.
informative
slow-paced
As a data analyst, I love this book. I just wish I would have stumbled on it while pregnant with my first instead of the hold at the library being ready when my second turned 5 months. Most of the issues talked about in this book had been decided and we are sticking with it.
Another excellent book from Emily Oster. She conducts extensive analysis of existing research, makes determinations of relative usefulness of different studies, and presents her findings in a highly readable, entertaining way. I'm no fan of reading about economics in general, but she effectively uses her economics expertise to synthesize analysis and explain the utility of all kinds of parenting issues in an economics framework that I find helpful and reassuring.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
informative
medium-paced
This was fine. There was nothing earth shattering in here, but good to read about things like formula vs. breastfeeding and TV time for kids.