Thinking Critically About Child Development: Examining Myths and Misunderstandings

Jean Mercer, Stephen D.A. Hupp and Jeremy Jewell use intriguing vignettes and questions about children and families to guide readers through thinking critically about 72 common beliefs. Each essay confronts commonly held misconceptions about development, encouraging students to think like social scientists and to become better consumers of media messages and anecdotal stories. The book can be assigned to parallel either chronologically or topically organized child and adolescent development texts.