Robert A. LeVine and Sarah LeVine have collaborated for forty-seven years and have written two previous books, Child Care and Culture and Literacy and Mothering. Robert is the Roy E. Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Sarah is an anthropologist who has conducted research on four continents and coordinated the fieldwork of the Project on Maternal Schooling. Her books include Dolor y Alegria, Mothers and Wives, and The Saint of Kathmandu.
"Fascinating...The authors' global perspective finds that human
experience is varied and kids are resilient."--Laura Vanderkam,
Wall Street Journal
"From birth onward, humans distinguish themselves as Earth's most
adaptable mammal. Robert A. and Sarah LeVine combine decades of
observation with absorbing storytelling to reveal the near-infinite
variation of paths to a healthy adulthood. Do Parents Matter? is a
must-read for students of human development and concerned parents
alike."--Sam Wang, professor of neuroscience, Princeton University,
and coauthor, Welcome to Your Child's Brain
"I love this advice ... Do Parents Matter? pushes the conversation
in the same provocative and essential way [as Pamela Druckerman's
Bringing Up Bébé]. Because of course parents matter. But they're
more effective when they tear their eyes away from all the
conflicting advice and focus on the messy, complicated,
contradictory kid in front of them."--Anna Davies, New York
Post
"It took two accomplished (and married) anthropologists, Robert A.
LeVine and Sarah LeVine, to synthesize years of research spanning
the globe, then ask the basic question in the title of their new
book: Do Parents Matter?...a well-informed argument."--Dan
Saltzstein, New York Times Book Review
"Parenting experts beware: the anthropologists are coming! Robert
A. and Sarah Levine discover fascinating lessons on child-rearing,
from the Japanese to the Gusii."
--Pamela Druckerman, author of Bringing Up Bébé
"The LeVines have created a valuable book for parents. By exposing
them to the practices and goals of parents and cultures around the
world, they offer parents in the United States ideas for their own
goals, and for how to react as pressures on parents increase in our
country. It is particularly important for parents to rethink their
roles, rather than continue the present hovering, to one that may
produce children who learn from the first how to face the
inevitable stresses of development with more self-confidence."--T.
Berry Brazelton
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