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Most parenting manuals end up gathering dust on my bedside table, but Melinda Wenner Moyer’s Hello, Cruel World! isn’t one of them
One of a child’s most important jobs is to make sense of the world
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Hello, Cruel World!
Melinda Wenner Moyer (Headline Home (UK); G.P. Putnam’s Sons (US))
The unfortunate thing about parenting books is that, in my experience, once you become a parent you are too time-poor and exhausted to read them. As a result, my bedside table is stacked with parenting manuals of which I’ve read the first five pages a dozen times before passing out.
If this sounds like you, the latest book by science journalist Melinda Wenner Moyer should be top of your pile. …
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