This book traces the growing influence of neuroparenting in British policy and politics. Neuroparenting advocates claim that all parents require training, especially in how their baby s brain develops. Taking issue with the claims that the first years last forever and that infancy is a critical period during which parents must strive ever harder to stimulate their baby s brain just to achieve normal development, the author offers a trenchant and incisive case against the experts who claim to know best and in favour of the privacy, intimacy and autonomy which makes family life worth...