Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
 

Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent

by Meredith Small

How we raise our children differs greatly from society to society, with many cultures responding differently to such questions as how a parent should respond to a crying child, how often a baby should be nursed, and at what age a child should learn to sleep alone. Ethnopediatrics--the study of parents, children, and child rearing across cultures--is the subject of anthropologist Meredith ... (read more)

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Great look at parenting from the perspective first, of biology, then of various cultures. Really great to see how mainstream parenting techniques in America and other Western nations differ from the rest of the world. Can help to bolster your own instinctive way of parenting if it differs from the main in this country.

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