Children. Small M.

The book that you are holding in front of you is not a collection of tips for parents, not a practical guide to raising children. This is a look at the phenomenon of childhood through the eyes of an anthropologist. Childhood is a stage of life cycle between infancy and adolescence, which only people have. So where did it come from? And why is it necessary from the point of view of evolution - for growth, development, learning or for something else? The author is trying to answer these questions, exploring that exciting border where biology faces culture, where their parents and their children are pushed in one direction, and culture in the other. The author expresses the hope that, having read this work, parents and all, somehow involved in raising children, will think about what they are doing, why they are doing this, and not otherwise, and that perhaps there is and there are and there Other ways to help our children enter adulthood than those adopted in our Western culture.