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The Game Theorists Guide to Parenting, by journalist Paul Raeburn and game theorist Kevin Zollman, is a practical parenting book that applies the logic of game theory to everyday family conflict. Rather than treating children as problems to be controlled, the book treats family life as a series of strategic interactions among people with different preferences, limited patience, and competing ideas of fairness. Its subject is familiar parenting territory: disputes over toys, complaints about unfairness, resistance to homework, bedtime negotiations, sibling conflict, and long car rides. Its method is less conventional. Raeburn and Zollman draw on ideas associated with economics, political strategy, and decision theory, including bargaining, incentives, the Prisoners Dilemma, and the Ultimatum Game, while keeping mathematical detail in the background. The purpose is not to make parenting mechanical, but to help parents design clearer choices, fairer procedures, and more stable incentives so that conflict becomes easier to manage.