I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.

The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys - won't do a thing to make your baby smarter. That's largely because babies are already as smart as they can be; smarter than we are in some ways.

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

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