An invitation to the many worlds of childhood: The introduction to The Child. Parenting for smarties: A review of NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman (and more and more and more). Good luck raising that gender-neutral child: An interview with Lise Eliot, author of Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps — and What We Can Do About It (and more). A review of Partnership Parenting: How Men and Women Parent Differently by Kyle Pruett and Marsha Kline Pruett. Married writers Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman publish revealing accounts of parenthood. Freestyle fatherhood: An interview with Simon Carr, author of The Boys Are Back. Emily Bazelon writes in defense of the play date: They don't have to be occasions for mothers to silently judge one another. Whose kids are healthier?: A British study says children of working moms don't eat as well as kids whose mothers stay home. Patricia Busa McConnico on overscheduled children. Lara Vanderkam on the myth of the overscheduled child. A review of Let Kids Be Kids: Rescuing Childhood by Mary Muscari. How do parents and teachers instill the proper level of guilt in a child? A look at how universal concerns, not cultural values, may shape kids’ developing notions of right and wrong. The defiant ones: In today’s picture books, the kids are in charge. Are your kids watching enough TV? How the self-esteem generation is raising its children by looking in the mirror. A review of How to Ditch Your Allowance and Be Richer Than Your Parents! by Patti Handy. Not doing it for the kids: The child-free life can be great — why is it almost always presented as second-best, cold and empty?
