David A Pratt

Not great

Revisado: 12-08-22

I went into this book with high hopes. I would say it contains a lot of generally good advice and common sense, but nothing groundbreaking or innovative. As it goes on, the generational platitudes like her views on divorce and video games, combined with her obvious privilege really start to show. This makes the book extremely difficult to get through. I didn’t give up on it until she started discounting research in favor of her own opinion. I acknowledge that Esther overcame some challenges in her childhood, but 1) She’s an English teacher and Mother, not an authority on psychology or childhood development and 2) She is clearly oblivious to the struggles of the modern American Family, much less how much the environment her children grew up in, not just her parenting style, contributed to their success. To be clear, I am happy that her and her family has found success, but any insight you could possibly glean from her experience is at best outdated, and at worst painfully tone deaf. Spend the 11 hours if your life listening to something written by someone who has actually studied childhood development, not another upper middle class white lady who did an okay job raising her children in Silicon Valley.

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Background music?

Revisado: 03-09-22

Background music is distracting and it takes away from the value of the content. It is very difficult to follow.

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