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Why most parenting advice is wrong

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Yuko Munakata |

TEDxCU

• April 2019

Parenting books promise to teach us how to raise successful children and, in doing so, reveal why each of us turned out the way we did. Developmental psychologist Yuko Munakata tells a different story, challenging and complicating the prevailing wisdom about parents' role in their children's futures.

Parenting books promise to teach us how to raise successful children and, in doing so, reveal why each of us turned out the way we did. Developmental psychologist Yuko Munakata tells a different story, challenging and complicating the prevailing wisdom about parents' role in their children's futures.

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Yuko Munakata

Developmental psychologist

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Yuko Munakata is a professor in the Department of Psychology and Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis.

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