Book Review of Alexander, Jessica Joelle, and Iben Dissing Sandhal. (2016). The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids. New York: Tarcher Perigree.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids", is an educational book that teaches an alternative way of parenting used by Danish parents.The authors deliberately avoid stating that the Danes way of parenting is the only acceptable parenting style, but instead uses psychotherapy experience, research, and facts about Danish life to provide an alternative way of parenting that strives for stronger bonds as well as overall happiness.The authors choose to educate others on how to solve problems with their children and to have honest, open communication with their children.To demonstrate their themes, The book is presented as the acronym PARENT.Each letter represents an essential principle that helps to make happy families as well as confident and successful children.Alexander and Sandahl define play as "[children being] left to their own devices, with a friend or alone, to play exactly as they see fit, for as long as they want" (p.11).Parents often put their children in activities, such as sports clubs and instrument lessons, that typically cause anxiety.An example to combat the issue is allowing the children to have their own space to grow and learn for themselves with parents providing minimal support when necessary.Alexander and Sandahl argue that this allows children to develop their competence as well as their confidence in their
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.062 | 0.043 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".