What if we told you that dishonesty in children is a positive traitthat arguing in front of your kids can make you a good role modeland that if you praise your children you risk making them failand it was all true? Using a cutting-edge combination of behavioural psychology & neuroscience award-winning journalists Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman have produced an innovative counter-intuitive read that will change the way we interact with our children forever They demonstrate that for years our best intentions with children have been our worst ideas using break-through scientific studies to prove that our instincts & received wisdom are all wrong Nurtureshock is the Freakonomics of childhood & adolescence exploring logic-defying insights into child development that have far-reaching relevance for us all