This is a great book for parents or anyone working with children, exploring
all 3 areas of empathy, creativity, and self control, the author gives advice and exercises for this and tells us these skills can be learned at any age, which will be reassuring I'm sure for many.

This book is fantastic!!! I will be homeschoooling my daughter next year as she begins kindergarten and I am using this book in order to learn how to foster creativity, self regulation and empathy in her. I am planning a co-op where we can meet together frequently and the kids will have this interaction and hope to integrate these qualities in their play and learning. The book gives some great ideas on how to develop these qualities in children and why they are so important as well. I will definitely be referring back to this book frequently while I am helping my children improve upon these qualities in order to provide the best start at life I can for them. The format of the book is great and the content is great. I hope that as parents and teachers alike use this information to help foster these qualities in children, that we can help make the world a kinder and better place to live in!

Thank you Sounds True Publishing and Netgalley for this ARC.

This was an interesting book to assist parents build resilience and empathy in their children, providing good examples and tools for doing this. This was a good accompliment to similar parenting books.

Thank you for the opportunity to review "Second Nature." Unfortunately I'm sorry to say that I did not enjoy this book. As a developmental scientist with a PhD in child psychology, I found the explanations of developmental phenomena to be circuitous and overly simplified. I also couldn't get past the author's frequent attribution of causal linkages that are actually correlational (e.g., saying that empathy causes increased happiness, when in reality it could be the opposite - that happier people tend to be more empathetic - or that there is a third unknown factor linking both). While I appreciate efforts to put developmental science into the hands of parents, I found this book lacking overall. For that reason, and because I did not read the entire book, I will not be sharing a review on my social media pages.