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The instant New York Times bestseller!
An NPR Book of the Year
From the author of Expecting Better, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting.
"The book is jampacked with information, but it's also a delightful read because Oster is such a good writer." -NPR
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.
Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University and the author of Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know. She was a speaker at the 2007 TED conference and her work 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.
Show moreThe instant New York Times bestseller!
An NPR Book of the Year
From the author of Expecting Better, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting.
"The book is jampacked with information, but it's also a delightful read because Oster is such a good writer." -NPR
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.
Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University and the author of Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know. She was a speaker at the 2007 TED conference and her work 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.
Show moreEmily 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.
“Cribsheet, a new book by Emily Oster of Brown University, shows
that in the hectic haze of parenthood an economist’s perspective
can prove surprisingly clarifying . . . Parenting can be fraught.
Cribsheet aims to help parents do better.” —The Economist
“Both refreshing and useful. With so many parenting theories
driving us all a bit batty, this is the type of book that we need
to help calm things down.” —LA Times
“The book is jampacked with information, but it’s also a delightful
read because Oster is such a good writer.” —NPR
“Many parents will likely find reading it a huge relief from the
scare stories that seem to pop up everywhere these days. The
author, economist Emily Oster, burst into the parent-lit world with
her 2013 hit Expecting Better which remains required reading
for a certain set of pregnant parents. Oster repeats her
ingeniously simple formula with Cribsheet: taking conventional
wisdom and diving into the research behind it, often showing that
“the studies” are thin or nonexistent, or their findings that have
been overstated . . . Cribsheet is not another call for the end of
helicopter parenting or snowplow parenting or whatever kind of
parenting is lighting up social media today, and it’s not a call to
overthrow medical wisdom; it’s a call for parenting with context,
and it’s freeing.” —The Washington Post
“The perfect read for anybody worried about the myriad of decisions
that surround raising young kids. Oster, an economics professor
whose work focuses on health, analyzes the data on issues such as
breastfeeding, sleep training, allergies, and daycare to bust myths
and, ultimately, dispel the guilt many new parents are prone to
feeling. Why we love it: it offers the reassurance to parent
in a way that suits *you* (and not the mom next door).”
—Motherwell.com
“In my household, [Emily Oster] is the all-knowing Aunt we have
never met. Parenting would be a lot more stressful without these
books.” —Adam Ozimek, Forbes
“Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University who focuses on
health economics, has set out to make these decisions a little
easier for parents by arming them with data and a healthy
understanding of the principles of economics-driven
decision-making. Her 2013 book, Expecting Better: Why the
Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to
Know, has become something like a bible that gets tattered as it’s
passed from friend to pregnant friend. In it, she offers digestible
conclusions from reliable research and debunks myths on everything
from alcohol and caffeine consumption to exercise and bed rest. Her
new book, Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More
Relaxed Parenting, From Birth to Preschool, takes a similar
approach with the first three years following birth. Oster’s aim is
not to provide the answer to parents’ questions
about breastfeeding, circumcision, sleep and childcare.
Instead, she argues that there is often more than one right answer,
and it falls somewhere in between what the data says and what works
for each family’s unique circumstances.” —Time
“‘This book will not tell you what decisions to make for your
kids,’ Oster writes in Cribsheet. ‘Instead, I’ll try to give
you the necessary inputs and a bit of a decision framework. The
data is the same for us all, but the decisions are yours alone.’
Smart, relatable, and funny, Oster makes good on that promise while
drawing on her own experience for anecdotes. She tackles all the
major issues, including circumcision, potty training, marital
health with kids, and when to conceive your next child. Clearly
defined chapters make it easy to pick up the book and cram about
any issue.” —Bloomberg.com
“After reading Cribsheet, parents will come away feeling much more
informed and less likely to turn to Google, friends and family only
to receive conflicting advice.” —CNBC
“With practical and useful advice backed with expert references,
this book will give you the tools you need to tackle some of the
biggest decisions you’ll make when raising your child from birth to
preschool.” —Minnesota Monthly
“Parents new and old will find reassurance in this commonsense
approach.” —Publishers Weekly
“Parents who find comfort in statistics, and especially those who
enjoy Malcolm Gladwell’s works, will appreciate [Cribsheet].”
—Booklist
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