Tag: books

  • Reading Books Makes You Smarter

    Reading Books Makes You Smarter

    Did you know that reading printed books can change your brain? Even after just a few days of reading on paper instead of on a screen, there are recognizable neurological shifts that take place. The importance of books and reading hasn’t changed, even as publishing increasingly goes digital. That’s what I learned recently while attending…

  • Achtung Baby: On German parenting

    Achtung Baby: On German parenting

    I’ve been waiting for years for someone to write about the German laissez faire style of parenting, and finally, Sara Zaske has. I got my hands on Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children and reviewed it for The Cut. Ever since journalist Pamela Druckerman’s Bringing Up Bébéhit the…