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Title: Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart Baby from Zero to Five

• Where nature ends and nurture begins

• Why men should do more household chores

• What you do when emotions run hot affects how your child turns out

• TV is harmful for children under 2

• Your child’s ability to relate to others predicts her future math performance

• Smart and happy are inseparable. Pursuing your child’s intellectual success at the expense of his happiness achieves neither

• Praising effort is better than praising intelligence

• The best predictor of academic performance is not IQ. It’s self control

• What you do right now – before pregnancy, during pregnancy, and through the first five years – will affect your children for the rest of their lives.