Will Mozart Make My Baby Smart?

Here at the Escape Club, we are ridiculously excited to announce that Marianne’s nephew has his first solo book out. Meet Dr Andrew Whitehouse!

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Here’s Andrew’s bio: 

Andrew Whitehouse is Winthrop Professor at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research at The University of Western Australia. He currently directs a team of researchers who investigate the causes of and treatment for autism.

His work has garnered worldwide media interest, and has been profiled in TIME, The New York Times, CNN, and the BBC among others. In 2011 he was named a Western Australian Tall Poppy of the Year; in 2012 he was a finalist in the prestigious Eureka Award; and in 2013 Andrew was named ‘one to watch’ in The West Australian’s list of 100 most influential Western Australians.

He trained as a speech pathologist at Curtin University before completing his PhD in psychology at UWA. He arrived back in Australia in 2009 after a number of years at the University of Oxford where he was the Scott Family Junior Research Fellow at University College.

And here is the book blurb:

Do mobile phones and bicycles kill sperm? Do pregnant women really suffer from baby brain? Do violent video games cause aggression? Does sugar make kids hyper?

Professor Andrew Whitehouse of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research poses those questions that make you gasp, snigger and ponder; the questions that you’ve thrown around over a coffee with friends, without ever reaching a conclusion.

In a wonderful combination of stories from modern parenting, tales from history, and scientific research, Andrew Whitehouse busts open thirteen of the best myths around, and provides reassurance and light relief from the challenges of parenthood.