When raising children, we often focus only on our own ideas about what is useful and correct, guided by personal experience and parental intuition. But does intuition always tell us the right decisions? This book presents a completely new, common-sense approach to the problems of raising and teaching children. Analyzing fundamental scientific research in recent years, the authors prove that many established ideas about education do more harm than good. This book will surprise almost every parent and will help get rid of many existing prejudices about children and their development.