"Freaknomics" Review

“Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner is about different situations leading to circumstances that vary and statistics to back it up. I believe the author wrote this book to explain and break down the different situations so that us readers can understand and see it from another perspective. The book also has statistics to show how bad the situation can be and how it affects everyone even if we don’t know it. On page 148,from the chapter “What Makes a Perfect Parent” the first passage caught my eye because the author writes about how the baby’s early life as in his or her first two years the brain is critical and should be allowed to just play out. By playing out I mean, if a baby was to cry the baby shouldn’t immediately be held and should cry for about 15-30 minutes because his or her mind needs to stimulate correctly. This passage specifically left a good impression because it makes sense and is very true. The effect like I said earlier should play out by itself. The reason why I chose this passage in particular is that I’ve noticed that every time my godson would cry when he was a baby I would always pick him up so that he wouldn’t cry, when really I should have allowed him to cry. Therefor I learned something new and I take it in full consideration now. Would I recommend this book to anyone? I’m going to have to say that I would definitely recommend this book to someone because it’s interesting and the chapters are really in depth.