一个经济学家的育儿指南 Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

基本信息

Format: Paperback, 352 pages 

Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc 

Imprint:Penguin USA 

ISBN:9780525559276

Published:23 Apr 2020 

Weight:312g

Dimensions:140x 213x 18mm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

屡获殊荣的经济学家艾米丽-奥斯特通过《更好的期待》发现，怀孕市场需要的是为妇女提供她们所需的信息，以便为自己的怀孕做出决定的建议。通过对数据的挖掘，奥斯特发现许多传统的怀孕智慧是错误的。在《婴儿床单》中，她现在要应对一个更大的挑战：在养育子女的早期做出决策。

正如任何一位新父母所知，医生、家人、朋友和互联网上的陌生人都会向你提出大量经常相互矛盾的建议。从刚开始的日子里，父母得到的信息是，他们必须在喂养、睡眠和日程安排方面做出某些选择，否则一切都会失败。每件事都有一个或三个规则。但是，这些选择的好处可能被夸大了，而权衡的结果可能是深刻的。你如何做出你自己的决定？

有了数据，奥斯特发现，传统的智慧并不总是站得住脚。她揭穿了关于母乳喂养、睡眠训练（不是那么糟糕！）、便盆训练（等到他们准备好了，或者用M&Ms来贿赂）、语言习得（早期说话的人不一定是天才）以及其他许多话题的神话。她还向父母们展示了如何思考一些沉重的问题，如是否以及如何回去工作，如何考虑幼儿的纪律问题，以及如何在保持关系的同时为人父母。

经济学是决策的科学，而《婴儿床单》是父母在混乱和频繁的错误信息的幼年时期的思考指南。艾米丽-奥斯特是一位训练有素的专家，也是两个孩子的母亲，她可以让我们做出更好的、不那么混乱的决定，并在学龄前几年保持理智。

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 greater challenge: decision-making in the early years of parenting. 

As any new parent knows, there is an abundance of often-conflicting advice hurled at you from doctors, family, friends, and strangers on 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? 

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. 

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.

作者简介

艾米丽-奥斯特是布朗大学的经济学教授，也是《期待更好》、《婴儿床单》和《家庭公司》的作者。她撰写通讯ParentData，她的作品被《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《大西洋》和《Bloomberg》报道。

Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University and the author of Expecting Better, Cribsheet, and The Family Firm. She writes the newsletter ParentData and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Bloomberg. She has two children.