The Game Theorist’s Guide to Parenting: How the Science of Strategic Thinking Can Help You Deal with the Toughest Negotiators You Know - Your Kids
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (838 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01DMCBDXA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 186 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Little Dry This book explains using statistics and psychology to help you with parenting strategies. It seems others found it very engaging and I found it a dry "skimming" sort of book, and this hard to put things into practice because the ideas aren't vivid for me.. "Interesting, but less useful if you only have one kid" according to pmt90Interesting, but less useful if you only have one kid pmt90405 The book is interesting, but since my kid is an only child I find most of what it discusses theoretical and not practical. This book is more geared to how to navigate the interests of multiple children.. 05. The book is interesting, but since my kid is an only child I find most of what it discusses theoretical and not practical. This book is more geared to how to navigate the interests of multiple children.. They're right, game theory is an effective tool for parenting edsetiadi I initially bought and read this book because I love behavioural economics, and I'm intrigued by the idea of using game theory as a strategy to raise my kids.But to my delightful surprise, the book covers more grounds than just parenting. The authors give the widest range of examples from the fascinating wo
Then they show how carefully concocted schemes involving bargains and fair incentives can save the day. As every parent knows, kids are surprisingly clever negotiators. Raeburn and Zollman open each chapter with a common parenting dilemma, such as determining who started a fight or who gets a bedtime story first. Delightfully witty, refreshingly irreverent, and just a bit Machiavellian, The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting looks past the fads to offer advice you can put into action today.. But how can we avoid those all-too-familiar wails, "That's not fair!" and "You can't make me!"? In The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting, journalist Paul Raeburn and game theorist Kevin Zollman pair up to highlight tactics from the worlds of economics and business that can help parents break the