Your Brain on Childhood: The Unexpected Side Effects of Classrooms, Ballparks, Family Rooms, and the Minivan

If you wanted to design a way of life that was exactly counter to the needs of developing brains, you would invent something like modern childhood.We strap newborns into bouncy seats in front of television sets and enroll them in early learning centers. During toddlerhood, we give them learning laptops, battery-powered toys, and educational DVDs. As they get older, we ferry them fr More »