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Bezig met laden... Do Parents Matter?: Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican Siblings Don’t Fight, and American Families Should Just Relaxdoor Robert A. Levine
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Really interesting topic, but the authors don’t really come to any useful conclusion. As others have said, it is more like a comparative ethnography. It will make you feel better if you don’t parent the typical American way though, which is nice. ( ) This is not actually what the cover and the blurb would make you guess. It is a great source for anthropologists or anyone interested in how different cultures parent, but it is not a parenting book, and can't understand why Amazon lists it as such. I personally found it a little bit dry, and the choice of cultures represented was rather limited. I understand that the anthropological work takes really long periods of time and it is not possible to write a book that covers it all. But, my general feeling was that there is a lot of misogyny in traditions related to childbirth and pregnancy in most cultures represented here and it sort of tainted the book for me. As an expectant mother, it made me feel really depressed. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"In some parts of northwestern Nigeria, mothers studiously avoid making eye contact with their babies. Some Chinese parents go out of their way to seek confrontation with their toddlers. Japanese parents almost universally co-sleep with their infants, sometimes continuing to share a bed with them until age ten. Yet all these parents are as likely as Americans to have loving relationships with happy children. If these practices seem bizarre, or their results seem counterintuitive, it's not necessarily because other cultures have discovered the keys to understanding children. It might be more appropriate to say there are no keys-but Americans are driving themselves crazy trying to find them. When we're immersed in news articles and scientific findings proclaiming the importance of some factor or other, we often miss the bigger picture: that parents can only affect their children so much. Robert and Sarah LeVine, married anthropologists at Harvard University, have spent their lives researching parenting across the globe-starting with a trip to visit the Hausa people of Nigeria as newlyweds in 1969. Their decades of original research provide a new window onto the challenges of parenting and the ways that it is shaped by economic, cultural, and familial traditions. Their ability to put our modern struggles into global and historical perspective should calm many a nervous mother or father's nerves. It has become a truism to say that American parents are exhausted and overstressed about the health, intelligence, happiness, and success of their children. But as Robert and Sarah LeVine show, this is all part of our culture. And a look around the world may be just the thing to remind us that there are plenty of other choices to make"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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