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Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young examines the nature of childhood through an evolutionary lens and argues that childhood is an essential stage of development with its own unique purposes, separate from those of adulthood; a time of growth and discovery that should not be rushed. Written by a renowned developmental psychologist Examines the role that our period of immaturity plays on the social, emotional, and educational needs of today's children Challenges common perceptions of children as simply "adults in training"

David F. Bjorklund is Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University. His publications include Parents Book of Discipline (with Barbara R. Bjorklund, 1999), The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology (with Anthony D. Pellegrini, 2002), and Children’s Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences (fourth edition, 2005).

Preface
Acknowledgments
The Benefits of Youth
Rushing through Childhood
Views of Development
A Darwinian Perspective
I Come Not to Praise Immaturity
The Youngest Species
A Brief Look at Human Evolution
The Evolution of Childhood
Timing is Everything
The Youngest Species
The Slow Rate of Growing Up
The Gamble of Delayed Development
Big Brains, Social Complexity, and Slow Development
Cooperating and Competing
Family Matters
Slow Growth and Brain Plasticity
Developmental Plasticity and Evolution
When Slow is Fast Enough
Adapting to the Niche of Childhood
The Benefits of Limitations
See Things My Way
Learning Language
How Do Adults View Children's Immature Thinking?
Adapting to Childhood
The Advantages of Thinking You're Better than You Are
The Development of Metacognition - Knowing What We Know
Some Benefits of Less-Than-Perfect Metacognition
When We Deal with Children
Know Thyself, But Not Too Well
Play: The Royal Road through Childhood
What is Play?
The Adaptive Value of Play
Children Playing, Children Learning
Play it Again, Kid
The Most Educable of Animals
The Myth of "Earlier is Better"
Prenatal Learning
Early (Postnatal) Learning
Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Early Education
Stress in the Schoolhouse
Old Brain, New Curriculum
The Changing Face of Childhood
Pushing Children through Childhood
A Brief History of Childhood
The Costs of Ignoring Immaturity: The Well-being of America's Children
The Independent Human Juvenile: A New View of Childhood?
Racing to Adulthood, Prolonging Adolescence
Epilogue: Homo Juvenalis
Revisiting Childhood
Visiting Adulthood
Notes
References
Index
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Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young Immaturity in Human Development

Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young Immaturity in Human Development

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