The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years
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“Emily Oster dives into the data on parenting issues, cuts through the clutter, and gives families the bottom line to help them make better decisions.” –Good Morning America
“A targeted mini-MBA program designed to help moms and dads establish best practices for day-to-day operations." -The Washington Post
From the bestselling author of Expecting Better, Cribsheet, and The Family Firm, the next step in data driven parenting from economist Emily Oster.
In The Family Firm, Brown professor of economics and mom of two Emily Oster offers a classic business school framework for data-driven parents to think more deliberately about the key issues of the elementary years: school, health, extracurricular activities, and more.
Unlike the hourly challenges of infant parenting, the big questions in this age come up less frequently. But we live with the consequences of our decisions for much longer. What's the right kind of school and at what age should a particular kid start? How do you encourage a healthy diet? Should kids play a sport and how seriously? How do you think smartly about encouraging children's independence? Along with these bigger questions, Oster investigates how to navigate the complexity of day-to-day family logistics.
Making these decisions is less about finding the specific answer and more about taking the right approach. Parents of this age are often still working in baby mode, which is to say, under stress and on the fly. That is a classic management problem, and Oster takes a page from her time as a business school professor at the University of Chicago to show us that thoughtful business process can help smooth out tough family decisions.
The Family Firm is a smart and winning guide to how to think clearly—and with less ambient stress—about the key decisions of the elementary school years.
Parenting is a full-time job. It's time we start treating it like one.
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Emily Oster. (2021). The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years. Penguin Publishing Group.
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“Emily Oster dives into the data on parenting issues, cuts through the clutter, and gives families the bottom line to help them make better decisions.” –Good Morning America
“A targeted mini-MBA program designed to help moms and dads establish best practices for day-to-day operations." -The Washington Post
From the bestselling author of Expecting Better, Cribsheet, and The Family Firm, the next step in data driven parenting from economist Emily Oster.
In The Family Firm, Brown professor of economics and mom of two Emily Oster offers a classic business school framework for data-driven parents to think more deliberately about the key issues of the elementary years: school, health, extracurricular activities, and more.
Unlike the hourly challenges of infant parenting, the big questions in this age come up less frequently. But we live with the consequences of our decisions for much longer. What's the right kind of school and at what age should a particular kid start? How do you encourage a healthy diet? Should kids play a sport and how seriously? How do you think smartly about encouraging children's independence? Along with these bigger questions, Oster investigates how to navigate the complexity of day-to-day family logistics.
Making these decisions is less about finding the specific answer and more about taking the right approach. Parents of this age are often still working in baby mode, which is to say, under stress and on the fly. That is a classic management problem, and Oster takes a page from her time as a business school professor at the University of Chicago to show us that thoughtful business process can help smooth out tough family decisions.
The Family Firm is a smart and winning guide to how to think clearly—and with less ambient stress—about the key decisions of the elementary school years.
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Oster's (economics, Brown Univ.; Cribsheet) latest is a guide to the many decisions faced by parents and caregivers of kids aged five to 12. The book defines the four F's of decision making: frame the question; fact find; final decision; follow up. Its premise is that a family with defined operating practices can make small decisions more easily. Oster describes creating a mission statement for your "family firm," honoring your values and priorities, and then carrying out the details using software, calendars, and schedules. The book includes case studies of real parents' decisions about school choice or social media use, plus a reading list and worksheets that might be helpful. VERDICT This quick read can help parents form a decision making framework. Some of the book's topics (camp, cell phones, etc.) don't adequately address an economically diverse readership, limiting the audience for this book.
Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Economics professor Oster (Cribsheet) offers a plethora of rational guidance for parents of kids between pre-K and middle school in this eminently practical guide. Logistics, she writes, are “the hallmark of this period of parenting,” and to that end, she applies organizational tools from the business world to family life. Offering charts, graphs, and hard data, Oster covers such topics as the right age to start kindergarten (she discusses “redshirting,” in which parents delay their start), public versus private school (consider feasibility above all), and nutrition (with a chart that estimates how different foods will impact a child’s body mass index). For big choices, her recommendations come down to her four F’s: “Frame the Question, Fact-Find, Final Decision, and Follow-Up.” While Oster’s methods aren’t for everyone—in one anecdote, she uses Google Calendar to schedule a meeting with her eight-year-old daughter about her school schedule, presenting “an agenda and draft schedule in advance”—those who persevere are likely to find the structure to be a useful framework. Business-minded parents willing to stick with the no-kidding-around approach will find this a handy resource for the preteen years. Agent: Suzanne Gluck, WME.
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Oster (Cribsheet, 2019) uses her background as a professor of economics at Brown University and experience as a mother to help parents ease stress by running their family more like a business, creating a "Family Firm" to tackle the complicated logistics of the elementary-school years. Oster recommends that families even consider creating a mission statement to guide their path. When confronted with a big decision, parents should follow the "Four Fs": "Frame the Question," "Fact-Find," "Final Decision," and "Follow-Up." Oster puts these into application in relatable scenarios throughout the book. Parents will likely face the choices of when to enroll their child in kindergarten, which school to attend, which extracurriculars to fit into their family schedule, when to allow their child to have a phone, and more. As Oster writes, "People will often tell you parenting is a job . . . So maybe it's time to start treating it like one." With Oster's help, rather than fear this next stage of parenting, readers can embrace (and even enjoy) the challenge.COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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“A targeted mini-MBA program designed to help moms and dads establish best practices for day-to-day operations." -The Washington Post
From the bestselling author of Expecting Better, Cribsheet, and The Family Firm, the next step in data driven parenting from economist Emily Oster.
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