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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Benefits of Youth | |
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| Rushing through Childhood | |
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| Views of Development | |
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| A Darwinian Perspective | |
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| I Come Not to Praise Immaturity | |
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| The Youngest Species | |
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| A Brief Look at Human Evolution | |
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| The Evolution of Childhood | |
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| Timing is Everything | |
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| The Youngest Species | |
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| The Slow Rate of Growing Up | |
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| The Gamble of Delayed Development | |
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| Big Brains, Social Complexity, and Slow Development | |
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| Cooperating and Competing | |
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| Family Matters | |
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| Slow Growth and Brain Plasticity | |
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| Developmental Plasticity and Evolution | |
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| When Slow is Fast Enough | |
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| Adapting to the Niche of Childhood | |
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| The Benefits of Limitations | |
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| See Things My Way | |
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| Learning Language | |
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| How Do Adults View Children's Immature Thinking? | |
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| Adapting to Childhood | |
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| The Advantages of Thinking You're Better than You Are | |
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| The Development of Metacognition - Knowing What We Know | |
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| Some Benefits of Less-Than-Perfect Metacognition | |
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| When We Deal with Children | |
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| Know Thyself, But Not Too Well | |
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| Play: The Royal Road through Childhood | |
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| What is Play? | |
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| The Adaptive Value of Play | |
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| Children Playing, Children Learning | |
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| Play it Again, Kid | |
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| The Most Educable of Animals | |
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| The Myth of "Earlier is Better" | |
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| Prenatal Learning | |
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| Early (Postnatal) Learning | |
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| Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Early Education | |
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| Stress in the Schoolhouse | |
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| Old Brain, New Curriculum | |
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| The Changing Face of Childhood | |
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| Pushing Children through Childhood | |
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| A Brief History of Childhood | |
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| The Costs of Ignoring Immaturity: The Well-being of America's Children | |
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| The Independent Human Juvenile: A New View of Childhood? | |
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| Racing to Adulthood, Prolonging Adolescence | |
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| Epilogue: Homo Juvenalis | |
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| Revisiting Childhood | |
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| Visiting Adulthood | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |