Nature Meets Nurture: Science-Based Strategies for Raising Resilient Kids

Nature vs. nurture is a complex question, but this book provides answers based on scientific research. It offers parenting practices to foster resilience and emotional wellbeing, explaining how biology and parenting work together. It is relevant in today's world, with competitive schools, climate change, and the pandemic causing anxiety.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 350 pages
Publication date: 15 March 2022
Publisher: American Psychological Association

Every parent has pondered the age-old question of nature vs. nurture. How much of my child's personality and behavior is inborn? How much is learned? This important book, written by behavioral scientists who are also mothers, has answers.

This book offers the best parenting practices to foster resilience by encouraging children's social-emotional development and adaptive stress-regulation strategies. The authors translate scientific research into concrete, actionable tips and recommendations to help promote the emotional wellbeing of both child and parent.

Authors Stacey N. Doan and Jessica Borelli offer a science-based framework to help show parents and guardians how biology and parenting work together. Although genetics are significant, DNA is not destiny—the die is not cast at birth. Parenting still matters, deeply. Cutting-edge epigenetics research and other recent scientific insights are explained to show that biology and parenting behavior are integrally intertwined.

Increasingly competitive schools, looming threats of climate change, and the Covid-19 pandemic have sent many parents' anxiety spiraling out of control. This affects their kids, creating a recurring cycle of stress and worry. This book is here to help.

Dimension: 216 x 140 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781433833106