Steven Pinker Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT, author of The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works John Bruer offers a voice of sanity, common sense, and genuine expertise to counter the latest fad from the witch doctors of child development. Nothing is more important than understanding the growth of children's minds, and Bruer insightfully reviews the state of the art with admirable clarity, balance, intelligence, and humor. This is an indispensable book for parents, professionals, and anyone else who is interested in the fate of our children.

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Acknowledgments 
Through the Prism of the First Three Years 
The Starting Points 
Neural Connections: Some You Use, Some You Loose 
Be All That You Can Be: Critical Periods 
Club Med or Solitary: The Importance of Enriched Environments 
What's a Mother (or the Rest of Us) to Do? 
Notes 
Index