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    'Hunt, Gather, Parent' Offers Lessons Collected Around The World

    NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff found that parenting books she read after becoming a mom left a lot out. When she went through a tough period with her daughter, she traveled the world in search of guidance.
    by Rachel Martin Feb 25, 2021 4 minutes
    <em>Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans,</em> by Michaeleen Doucleff

    There are many parenting books out there. But NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff says all the parenting books that she read after becoming a mom left a lot out.

    "I'm trained as a scientist. I spent seven years as a chemist and I really believed that the parenting advice we got today was backed by really stringent scientific research," she says. "And when I started looking at the studies as a scientist, I was really, really let down."

    She couldn't find answers to the trouble that she was having with her young daughter, Rosy.

    "She started actually, like, slapping me across the face, regularly. And I read all this stuff and nothing

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