Michaeleen Doucleff, PhD, has reported on children's health for NPR's science desk for more than a decade. In 2015, she was part of the team that earned a George Foster Peabody Award for its coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. She has a doctorate in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor of science from the California Institute of Technology. Before joining NPR, Doucleff completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. She lives with her husband and daughter in Alpine, Texas, and is the author of the New York Times bestseller Hunt, Gather, Parent and Dopamine Kids.
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USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Hunt, Gather, Parent is full of smart ideas
that I immediately wanted to force on my own kids. (I wish I'd read
it at the start of the pandemic, when I made their chore charts.)
Doucleff is a dogged reporter who's good at observing families and
breaking down what they're doing."
--Pamela Druckerman, The New York Times Book Review "Ms. Doucleff
might be the biggest parenting expert you've never heard about.
Hunt, Gather, Parent, published in 2021, has been translated into
thirty-one languages. It has sold more than one million copies
worldwide and has spent eleven weeks on the New York Times
bestseller list. . . . Most great-grandparents would consider Hunt,
Gather, Parent mere common sense. But to me, a clueless millennial,
the advice was revolutionary: Be together, encourage autonomy, and
don't interfere."
--Emi Nietfeld, The New York Times "Deeply researched . . .
[Doucleff] takes care to portray her subjects not as curiosities
'frozen in time, ' but instead as modern-day families who have held
on to invaluable child-rearing techniques that likely date back
tens of thousands of years."
--The Atlantic "Parents: You don't have to go to kid birthday
parties anymore! Or awkwardly straddle playground equipment! Or
create chore charts! In her funny, honest, and practical book,
Michaeleen Doucleff collects ancient wisdom that can restore sanity
to parenting."
--Amanda Ripley, New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest
Kids in the World and High Conflict "THIS IS THE PARENTING BOOK
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!! Frustrated by the challenges of being a
new parent, investigative journalist Michaeleen Doucleff straps her
kid on her back and travels thousands of miles to learn why and how
indigenous cultures seem to raise kids to be far more skilled,
confident, and content than the kids back at home. Armed with
respect and curiosity, Doucleff realizes that incessant
communication with her child while attempting to control every
small thing leads her child to feel anxiety and act out. And that
giving a child autonomy while building a loving connection yields
highly skilled kids who cooperate, regulate their emotions, and
pitch in without waiting to be asked. Smart, humbling, and
revealing, Hunt, Gather, Parent should force a re-set of modern
American parenting and return a healthier and happier childhood to
both parents and children."
--Julie Lythcott-Haims, New York Times bestselling author of How to
Raise an Adult and Real American "Michaeleen Doucleff's Hunt,
Gather, Parent breathes a gust of fresh air onto the parenting
bookshelf. She gives us a whole new way of looking at raising kids,
and it is so beautifully intuitive even as it runs counter to
everything we have been taught as Western parents. I loved all the
families she introduces us to, the landscapes she brings to life,
and her honesty about her relationships with her own daughter. It
really does take a village to raise a child, and it is pure joy to
follow Michaeleen and Rosy from village to village seeing how it
can be done. I can't wait to talk to other parents about this
book."
--Angela C. Santomero, creator, head writer, and executive producer
of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and Blue's Clues, and author of
Radical Kindness and Preschool Clues "Most of our greatest
parenting challenges, such as how to instill helpfulness, kindness,
and confidence in little ones, aren't problems at all in other
cultures. Michaeleen Doucleff travels far and wide to observe
firsthand how parents in non-Western societies have successfully
nurtured these traits in children for centuries, and she shares
their effective strategies in this very readable book. Hunt,
Gather, Parent is the new required reading for moms and dads
seeking wise and creative solutions to our most vexing parenting
dilemmas."
--David F. Lancey, PhD, author of The Anthropology of Childhood and
Raising Children: Surprising Insights from Other Cultures "A lively
account of traveling with her three-year-old daughter Rosy 'to the
corners of the world' to research parenting techniques . . .
Doucleff includes specific and manageable instructions for parents,
and end-of-chapter summaries include extra resources. Parents will
find Doucleff's curiosity contagious and guidance encouraging."
--Publishers Weekly "This book is filled with accessible, practical
information and anecdotes that can help parents address challenges
they may face."
--Jamie Herndon, Book Riot
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