The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years - THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Chart a child's path with less stress and more optimization for healthy habits and future success' - Time From age 5 to 12, parenting decisions get more complicated and have lasting consequences. What's the right kind of school? Should they play a sport? When's the right time for a phone? Making these decisions is less about finding the specific answer and more about taking the right approach. Along with these bigger questions, Oster investigates how to navigate the complexity of day-to-day family logistics. The Family Firm is a smart and winning guide to how to think more clearly - and with less ambient stress - about the key decisions of these early years.

Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University and the author of Cribsheet and Expecting Better. She spoke at the 2007 TED conference and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Esquire. Oster is married to economist Jesse Shapiro and is also the daughter of two economists. She has two children.

'Oster is a self-described data nerd, a delightful contrarian who dared question the status quo, shush the shamers and tell parents what made sense.' - The New York Times Book Review 'A targeted mini-MBA program designed to help moms and dads establish best practices for day-to-day operations ... Because this is an Oster book, there's data scattered everywhere - on the development of reading skills by age ... It's all presented in the breezy, skeptical style that's made Oster's work a must-read for parents who don't have the time to investigate Finnish studies about integrating extracurriculars into the school day.' - Washington Post 'A guide ... to chart a child's path with less stress and more optimization for healthy habits and future success.' - TIME Magazine 'Oster's prose flows well (as usual) lightly sprinkled with the dry wit that suffuses her other books.' - Salon 'Oster offers a plethora of rational guidance for parents of kids between pre-K and middle school in this eminently practical guide.' - Publishers Weekly