My TIME.com post on why modern parents have things backwards about child development, nurturing, and the value of play:
TIME, Inc.
“With narcissism levels on the rise among college students, and kids everywhere growing up with inflated egos and deflated life prospects, it’s hard to make the case for giving kids yet more pats on the back. But a growing body of research suggests we still have much to learn from traditional societies where babies grow into resilient and caring adults through a steady diet of nurturing.
Jared Diamond’s new book, The World Until Yesterday, describes some of the lessons we can learn from today’s hunter-gatherer societies that most closely approximate the way people lived in our ancestral past. While they vary in important ways, most of these societies share a leisurely childhood where infants are constantly held by their mothers or other caretakers and where young children have enormous freedom to play…
Continued: http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/30/what-the-pygmies-can-teach-us-about-childrearing/#ixzz2JTJo9ss8
