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
Jessica Joelle Alexander and Iben Dissing Sandahl's book, "The Danish Way of Parenting", is a cohesive combination of the sociological understanding of Danish parenting.It also serves as a guide for parents on how to implement the Danish way of parenting in their real lives.In Alexander and Sandahl's book, they attempt to avoid judging other parenting philosophies and focus on peer-reviewed scientific studies to show the effectiveness of Danish parenting.Alexander and Sandahl also use personal stories from Alexander's experience of being an American raising Danish children and her struggles in changing her way of thinking to adopt the Danish parenting style.The combination of scientific evidence and personal struggles and experiences is engaging and shows the effectiveness of the Danish philosophy.The acronym (PARENT) is used throughout the book.P is for play, A is for authenticity, R is for reframing, E is for empathy, N is for no ultimatums, and T is for togetherness and hygge.The audience of this book is parents and academic professionals such as sociologists and child psychologists interested in learning how Danish people raise capable children.This book is organized into chapters that each focus on specific aspects of Danish parenting.Each chapter contains underlying themes that all relate to the values of Danish parenting and the PARENT acronym.Alexander and Sandahl discuss the importance of play, "by 'play' we don't mean play the
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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 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.038 | 0.030 |
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".