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The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the new science of child development tells us about the relationship between parents and children by Alison Gopnik, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 Overwhelmed by the demands of parenting? Guilty about not being good enough? Psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik lets us off the hook, arguing that 21st-century notions of parenting are nothing to do with caring for kids and everything to do with a multibillion dollar industry that turns childcare into an obsessive business. It's wrong, says Gopnik: worse, it's bad science.