How do we find the balance between motivating a child and indulging him?

The Times' financial columnist Ron Lieber will be here to talk about his new bestseller,

The Opposite of Spoiled.

When we were teenagers, you and I, we lusted after a Sony Walkman and our own camera and a

private line in our home and our own television set.

A personal computer all our own.

Now, six graders walk around with a smartphone that does all of those things and more, so of

course we feel that acutely.

What exactly do we mean by Islamic Finance?

Author Harris Irfan will be here to talk about Heaven's Bankers.

It's a way of financing, which is based on certain ethical principles and the basics

of those principles are around justice and fairness and equality.

Alexander Alter will have notes from the publishing world, and Greg Cole's has bestseller

news.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Ron Lieber joins us now.

He is the Times' personal finance columnist, Tyron.

Hello.

So you wrote a book that's about a topic relevant to so many of us.

Me included.

The book is called The Opposite of Spoiled, Raising Kids, Who Are Grounded, Generous,

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