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376. The Data-Driven Guide to Sane Parenting

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πŸ—“οΈ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Humans have been having kids forever, so why are modern parents so bewildered? The economist Emily Oster marshals the evidence on the most contentious topics β€” breastfeeding and sleep training, vaccines and screen time β€” and tells her fellow parents to calm the heck down.

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If you've ever had a child or ever been a child, you know there's a lot of parenting advice

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out there, much of which is not very nuanced.

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No one's in the middle, and everyone and people are yelling the first person's like,

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well I did that and you know my kid's amazing.

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And then someone will be like, well actually if you do that, there's a very good chance

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your baby will die and only someone who hates their baby would do that.

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Some parenting decisions are controversial and we hear about them all the time.

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Children's do not cause autism, we have a tremendous amount of data showing that that is

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