. >> who is po bronson and ashley merriman? >> po bronson is author of the number one best seller what should i do with my life, ashley merriman is a science journalist, and they've taken a look much as dubber in and leavitt did for the economy and friedman did for globalization, they're taking a cultural look at the way we raise children, and they've discovered there are certain key twists that science has overlooked. and recent research shows that conventional wisdom of raising our kids is all wrong, so they won a national magazine award for a piece they did on praise for new york magazine. turns out overpraising your children will, n., make your children less inclined to attempt to do things they don't think they're good at. there are also chapters on siblings, there are chapters on gifted programs, testing for private scools. turns out that the testing for gifts programs they do in kindergarten, and testing for elite private schools, they've retested a lot of these schools three, four years later, and they've found they've