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    Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
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    Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
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    Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

    Written by Emily Oster

    Narrated by Karissa Vacker

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    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?

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 23, 2019
    ISBN9781984838872
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    Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
    Author

    Emily Oster

    Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University and the author of Cribsheet and Expecting Better. Listed as one of TIME's most influential people 2022, her work is centred around humanising data to help people work through hard decisions. She spoke at the 2007 TED conference and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Esquire. Oster is married to economist Jesse Shapiro and is also the daughter of two economists. She has two children.

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    • 5/5
      I wish this came out earlier. All the anxiety I got for making certain decisions because everyone said to do one thing and not another when really the studies don’t show it really matters. A must read for someone who wants facts and not opinions. Because a study can be a terrible study, but news articles aren’t going to tell you the research that backs their opinion should’ve never even been published.
    • 5/5
      my partner and i enjoyed the data-driven approach to examining all the various childbirth and child-rearing philosophies. Oster takes an unbiased view of all the different methodologies and gives a good analysis of pros and cons of each.