Nurture Shock
by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Mar 2026 on Digital Social Hour.
The general take
Robert Love highlighted Nurture Shock as a great book, pointing to one study it covers about a town that shifted school start times two hours later and saw SAT scores jump by a hundred points as evidence of the book's valuable insights.
About
A groundbreaking book that will change the way you view parenting. In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that matter? Why do interracial friendships decrease in schools that are more integrated? If 98% of kids think lying is morally wrong, then why do 98% of kids lie? What's the single most important thing that helps infants learn language? NurtureShock is a groundbreaking collaboration between award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. They argue that when it comes to children, we've mistaken good intentions for good ideas. With impeccable storytelling and razor-sharp analysis, they demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring—because key twists in the science have been overlooked.
Who said what
- RL
Robert Love👍 Recommends
…discussing research on school start times and student performance
“There's a great book called nurture shock, nature shock or nurture shock. And what they did was, uh, and one of the studies they talked about in this book was that a town changed the start time of school to, I think two hours later. So instead of 8am start at 10am SAT scores went up a hundred points.”
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