• The Game Theorist’s Guide to Parenting

  • How the Science of Strategic Thinking Can Help You Deal with the Toughest Negotiators You Know - Your Kids
  • By: Paul Raeburn, Kevin Zollman
  • Narrated by: Paul Raeburn, Kevin Zollman
  • Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (60 ratings)

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The Game Theorist’s Guide to Parenting

By: Paul Raeburn, Kevin Zollman
Narrated by: Paul Raeburn, Kevin Zollman
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The tools you need to master the toughest negotiations you'll ever face - those with your kids.

As every parent knows, kids are surprisingly clever negotiators. But how can we avoid those all-too-familiar wails, "That's not fair!" and "You can't make me!"?

In The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting, journalist Paul Raeburn and game theorist Kevin Zollman pair up to highlight tactics from the worlds of economics and business that can help parents break the endless cycle of quarrels and ineffective solutions. They show that some of the same strategies successfully applied to big business deals and politics - such as the prisoner's dilemma and the ultimatum game - can be used to solve such titanic, age-old parenting problems as dividing up toys, putting down those screens, and sticking to a bedtime.

Raeburn and Zollman open each chapter with a common parenting dilemma, such as determining who started a fight or who gets a bedtime story first. Then they show how carefully concocted schemes involving bargains and fair incentives can save the day. Through smart case studies of game theory in action, Raeburn and Zollman reveal how parents and children devise strategies, where those strategies go wrong, and what we can do to help raise happy and savvy kids while keeping the rest of the family happy, too.

Delightfully witty, refreshingly irreverent, and just a bit Machiavellian, The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting looks past the fads to offer advice you can put into action today.

©2016 Paul Raeburn and Kevin Zollman (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Easy and applicable insight on Game Theory

What made the experience of listening to The Game Theorist’s Guide to Parenting the most enjoyable?

Lots of great examples for application. Just enough explanation of each principle.

What did you learn from The Game Theorist’s Guide to Parenting that you would use in your daily life?

Very real ways to deal use game theories in everyday situations with kids, husbands and work colleagues.

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