An Unnatural Childhood: An Evolutionary View of Teaching and Parenting

Evolution: This View of Life’s Education Editor Gabrielle Principe talks with WHYY’s Marty Moss-Coane on Radio Times about an evolutionarily informed approach to educating and rearing children. In the effort to give kids a leg up in life, parents bombard them with educational toys, rush them to chess, fencing, and piano lessons, and place them in preschool programs that stress academics in the earliest years.