Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) / quote 87 of 91
Real parenting is richer than the data
The real world of moms and dads is a much richer, much more amazing experience than the two-dimensional world of data, including all the stuff in this book. It’s easy to feel like the exasperated new father in the comic strip Baby Blues, who says, “The only time I ever felt qualified to be a parent was before I had kids.” How can we summarize the science but still live in the nine-to-five, three-dimensional world of real life? The solution is to simplify.