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From the author of Expecting Better, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting.
With Expecting Better, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies. By digging into the data, Oster found that much of the conventional pregnancy wisdom was wrong. In Cribsheet, she now tackles an even great challenge decision-making in the early years of parenting.Â
As any new parent knows, there is an abundance of often-conflicting advice hurled at you from doctors, family, friends, and the internet. From the earliest days, parents get the message that they must make certain choices around feeding, sleep, and schedule or all will be lost. There's a rule - or three - for everything. But the benefits of these choices can be overstated, and the trade-offs can be profound. How do you make your own best decision?Â
Armed with the data, Oster finds that the conventional wisdom doesn't always hold up. She debunks myths around breastfeeding (not a panacea), sleep training (not so bad!), potty training (wait until they're ready or possibly bribe with M&Ms), language acquisition (early talkers aren't necessarily geniuses), and many other topics. She also shows parents how to think through freighted questions like if and how to go back to work, how to think about toddler discipline, and how to have a relationship and parent at the same time.Â
Economics is the science of decision-making, and Cribsheet is a thinking-parent's guide to the chaos and frequent misinformation of the early years. Emily Oster is a trained expert - and mom of two - who can empower us to make better, less fraught decisions - and stay sane in the years before preschool.
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Read Cribsheet A DataDriven Guide to Better More Relaxed Parenting from Birth to Preschool Audible Audio Edition Emily Oster Karissa Vacker Penguin Audio Books
"I'm an economics student and a new parent and this book provides exactly what you expect out a professor from a good university - data driven decision making. When we started our journey as parents, we were bombarded with a ton of advice and opinions from other parents and even practicing nurses, with no real scientific basis for anything. I'll give you an example. In the hospital where our child was born, a nurse came and yelled at us for letting our child suck on a pacifier. We were traumatized. Fortunately, our pediatrician stopped by and answered all our questions and educated us about "Nipple Confusion". If we had this book earlier, I would have been much more calm when the uninformed nurse wreaked havoc.
This book does a prefect job of picking some of those most common "opinions" (like "nipple confusion") and analyzes them with hard data and science.
I'm really happy Emily wrote this book. If you believe in science and data, this book will make your childcare journey much more pleasant."
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Cribsheet A DataDriven Guide to Better More Relaxed Parenting from Birth to Preschool Audible Audio Edition Emily Oster Karissa Vacker Penguin Audio Books Reviews :
Cribsheet A DataDriven Guide to Better More Relaxed Parenting from Birth to Preschool Audible Audio Edition Emily Oster Karissa Vacker Penguin Audio Books Reviews
- I love everything about it, so practical and useful with expert references. It's a wonderful antidote to the anxious shame based focus so much parenting advice seems to employ in America. Easily readable, yet scientific enough for this academic mother to feel enriched by it. My only criticisms are that I think the book Precious Little Sleep should have been mentioned in the sleep area, and perhaps she should have taken a moment to address the Rock N' Play issues currently all over the news when mentioning that product.
- One of the most overwhelming things as a parent is making decisions about what will be best for your child and your family. I’ve definitely had my preferences about sleep training, baby feeding, and discipline, but I think every mom doubts herself sometimes and wonders if she’s really doing things the “right†way or if she’s completely screwing up her child.
This is why we needed Emily Oster’s book. Her pregnancy book Expecting Better was like a guidebook for me during pregnancy, and although I had to wait 2 years for this parenting book, it was definitely worth the wait. Oster simply outlines the research behind many of the big parenting decisions, including how and what to feed our children, vaccinations, discipline, education, screen time and potty training. Just like in Expecting Better, she doesn’t give advice but simply outlines the research, allowing the reader to use that information to guide their own decision making.
As a mom, I’ve loved reading about which decisions don’t really seem to matter much in the long run, and which I should take a little more seriously. This book helps me feel like an informed parent, which allows me to feel more confident as a mother.
But my favorite part of this book is that in almost every chapter, Oster doesn’t just discuss how parenting decisions affect the children, but the parents as well. Almost all parenting advice that you read only talks about the children, but what about us? We are also impacted by our parenting choices, and we should consider our own well- being when making any decisions about our family. I hope that this sparks a new trend in parenting advice, where parents are allowed to think about themselves also. - I'm an economics student and a new parent and this book provides exactly what you expect out a professor from a good university - data driven decision making. When we started our journey as parents, we were bombarded with a ton of advice and opinions from other parents and even practicing nurses, with no real scientific basis for anything. I'll give you an example. In the hospital where our child was born, a nurse came and yelled at us for letting our child suck on a pacifier. We were traumatized. Fortunately, our pediatrician stopped by and answered all our questions and educated us about "Nipple Confusion". If we had this book earlier, I would have been much more calm when the uninformed nurse wreaked havoc.
This book does a prefect job of picking some of those most common "opinions" (like "nipple confusion") and analyzes them with hard data and science.
I'm really happy Emily wrote this book. If you believe in science and data, this book will make your childcare journey much more pleasant. - I pre-ordered this book after a friend gave me a copy of Expecting Better, and I was not disappointed. This is a valuable resource for parents, covering many of the big issues like breastfeeding, cosleeping, etc. There are a number of valuable charts to bookmark for future reference (like on weight loss after birth, and language development to pick a couple of examples). Also it's an enjoyable read, interspersing personal anecdote with data analysis.
As in Expecting Better, Cribsheet discusses one topic at a time, summarizing the available research and suggesting some factors to consider in personal decision making. It isn't about telling you what you should do, more of a guide to how to go about making your decisions. Although it does generally explain things like percentiles, study design, etc, people with at least a little background and interest in statistics/research methods may enjoy it more, but I don't think it ever gets too technical. Discussions about pregnancy and parenting are far too commonly dominated by conflicting assertions backed up with an unholy amalgam of anecdotes, judgement, pseudoscience, and cherry picking. A book like this, which tells the reader what we actually know (and what we actually don't) hopefully helps parents to feel confident making informed decisions based on what's right for their family.
