Hunt, Gather, Parent
What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
About the Book
NPR science correspondent Michaeleen Doucleff travels with her toddler daughter to live with Maya, Inuit, and Hadzabe families and observes how those cultures raise cooperative, self-directed children. She contrasts those practices with mainstream Western parenting and distills a set of methods (organized around the acronym TEAM: Togetherness, Encouragement, Autonomy, Minimal Interference) for readers to try at home.
Where Ryan Has Discussed This Book
- The Ryan Vet Show The Mothers Who Kept the Window Open: What We Lost When We Took Away the Village
The hardest part of modern motherhood isn't the work. It's that we now do it alone. The work was always going to be hard. The village was the part we could have kept. Generational futurist, USA Today
- The Ryan Vet Show Michaeleen Doucleff: Hunt, Gather, Parent, Dopamine Kids, and What Modern Parenting Gets Wrong
What if everything we know about modern parenting is wrong? NPR global health correspondent and bestselling author Michaeleen Doucleff joins The Ryan Vet Show for the first guest episode of year two,
- The Ryan Vet Show Start Here: What Shapes Us, and Where Are We Going
What shapes us? And where are we going? This is the Start Here episode of The Ryan Vet Show, the line in the sand between the essays that built this podcast and the conversations that will define what
