The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter
Description
Generations of mothers have been toldand believedthat having a baby means checking their own brains at the delivery room door. The Mommy Brain” usually refers to a head full of feeding times, soccer schedules, and nursery rhymes, at the expense of creative or challenging ideas. But recent scientific research paints a dramatically different and far rosier picture.Journalist Katherine Ellison draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to demonstrate that, contrary to long-established wisdom that having children dumbs you down, raising children may make moms smarter . From enhanced s...
ISBN(s)
0465019056, 9780465019052
