An empowering new way to make decisions as a parent - take out the judgement, use the data
Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University and the author of Expecting Better. 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.
Shows that in the hectic haze of parenthood an economist's
perspective can prove surprisingly clarifying
*Economist*
She has crunched all the statistics on breastfeeding, potty
training, working mothers and playgroups and discovered there is no
optimal set of choices that will produce the perfect child. Most
parents say they want happy, well-adjusted, robust kids and there
are myriad ways to achieve those results. She's right
*The Times*
It couldn't be more relevant ... steers clear of recommendations
and cast-iron guarantees, instead promising to arm parents with
information to make the decisions that are right for them
*Daily Telegraph*
A huge relief from the scare stories ... 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
*Washington Post*
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 Guilt-Free, Data-Driven Guide to Parenting.... uses science and
stats to cut through the confusion of raising a family...Smart,
relatable, and funny
*Bloomberg*
PRAISE FOR EMILY OSTER
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I am so grateful for her work
*Amy Schumer*
A savior for whipsawed mothers ... Oster shows how data, a scary
word, can be a humanizing force ... Enriching this analytical
brilliance is the common sense and empathy that come from being a
mother herself
*TIME's 100 Most Influential People of 2022*
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