Cribsheet

"By digging into the data [Emily] Oster found that much of the conventional pregnancy wisdom was wrong. In Cribsheet she now tackles an even great challenge: decision making in the early years of parenting. As any new parent knows there is an abundance of often-conflicting advice hurled at you from doctors family friends and the internet. From the earliest days parents get the message that they must make certain choices around feeding sleep and schedule or all will be lost. There's a rule--or three--for everything. But the benefits of these choices can be overstated and the tradeoffs can be profound... She also shows parents how to think through freighted questions like if and how to go back to work how to think about toddler discipline and how to have a relationship and parent at the same time. Economics is the science of decision-making and Cribsheet is a thinking parent's guide to the chaos and frequent misinformation of the early years."--