BooksRock.com - Kids Books At Amazing Low Prices!

The tools you need to master the toughest negotiations you'll ever face-those with your kids

As every parent knows, kids are surprisingly clever negotiators. But how can we avoid those all-too-familiar wails, That's not fair and You can't make me ? In The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting, journalist Paul Raeburn and game theorist Kevin Zollman pair up to highlight tactics from the worlds of economics and business that can help parents break the endless cycle of quarrels and ineffective solutions. They show that some of the same strategies successfully applied to big business deals and politics-such as the Prisoner's Dilemma and the Ultimatum Game-can be used to solve such titanic, age-old parenting problems as dividing up toys, putting down those screens, and sticking to a bedtime.

Raeburn and Zollman open each chapter with a common parenting dilemma, such as determining who started a fight or who gets a bedtime story first. Then they show how carefully concocted schemes involving bargains and fair incentives can save the day. Through smart case studies of game theory in action, Raeburn and Zollman reveal how parents and children devise strategies, where those strategies go wrong, and what we can do to help raise happy and savvy kids while keeping the rest of the family happy too.

Delightfully witty, refreshingly irreverent, and just a bit Machiavellian, The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting looks past the fads to offer advice you can put into action today.

Paul Raeburn is a blogger, media critic, writer, and the author of several books, including Do Fathers Matter? What Science Is Telling Us about the Parent We've Overlooked and Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children. He contributes to Discover, Scientific American, the New York Times Magazine, the Huffington Post, and Psychology Today, among many others. Raeburn is a former senior editor and senior writer at Businessweek and former science editor and chief science correspondent at the Associated Press. He lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.

Paul Raeburn is a blogger, media critic, writer, and the author of several books, including Do Fathers Matter? What Science Is Telling Us about the Parent We've Overlooked and Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children. He contributes to Discover, Scientific American, the New York Times Magazine, the Huffington Post, and Psychology Today, among many others. Raeburn is a former senior editor and senior writer at Businessweek and former science editor and chief science correspondent at the Associated Press. He lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.

Kevin Zollman is a game theorist and an associate professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University who has authored over thirty peer-reviewed papers applying game theory to a wide variety of topics. His work has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, Scientific American, and elsewhere. He lives in Pittsburgh.