Description: NPR superstar Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff introduces a highly appealing idea for a world where frantic overparenting has become the norm, proposing that ancestors may hold the answers to how to naturally master parenting where modern theories have failed.
Brief description: Michaeleen Doucleff, PhD, has reported on children's health for NPR's science desk for more than a decade. In 2015, she was part of the team that earned a George Foster Peabody Award for its coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. She has a doctorate in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor of science from the California Institute of Technology. Before joining NPR, Doucleff completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. She lives with her husband and daughter in Alpine, Texas, and is the author of the New York Times bestseller Hunt, Gather, Parent and Dopamine Kids.
Review Quotes:
"In her funny, honest, and practical book, Michaeleen Doucleff collects ancient wisdom that can restore sanity to parenting."
-- "Amanda Ripley, New York Times bestselling author"