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LeVine, Robert Alan. 1932-
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Parenting -- Cross-cultural studies.
Child rearing -- Cross-cultural studies.
Child development -- Cross-cultural studies.
Families -- Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnopsychology.
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LeVine, Robert Alan. 1932-
Parenting -- Cross-cultural studies.
Child rearing -- Cross-cultural studies.
Child development -- Cross-cultural studies.
Families -- Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnopsychology.
MARC Display
Do
parents
matter
? :
why
Japanese
babies
sleep
soundly
,
Mexican
siblings
don
't
fight
, and
American
families
should
just
relax
/ Robert A. LeVine and Sarah LeVine.
by
LeVine, Robert Alan. 1932-
PublicAffairs, [2016]
Call #:
649.1 L6653d
Subjects
Parenting -- Cross-cultural studies.
Child rearing -- Cross-cultural studies.
Child development -- Cross-cultural studies.
Families
-- Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnopsychology.
ISBN:
9781610397230 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xxiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index.
Contents:
We the
parents
: a worldwide perspective -- Parent-blaming in America -- Expecting: pregnancy and birth -- Infant care: a world of questions ... and some answers -- Mother and infant: face-to-face or skin-to-skin? -- Sharing child care: Mom is not enough -- Training toddlers: talking, toileting, tantrums, and tasks -- Childhood: school, responsibility, and control -- Precocious children: cultural priming by
parents
and others -- Conclusions.
Summary:
"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"--Provided by publisher.
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LeVine, Sarah, 1940-
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