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 F. Small's thorough and fascinating book Our Babies, Ourselves. Small asserts that our ideas about how to raise our kids are as much a result of our culture as our biology, and that, in fact, many of the values we place on child-rearing practices are based in culture rather than biology. Small writes, "Every…
This is definately not a how-to parenting book but an instead why we do what we do parenting book. It's written by an anthropologist regarding a number of different studies of parenting in different… This book is excellent. It actually gives evidence and cites
facts about babies. This is not a how to book, but shows you that as a parent you can choose between many parenting styles. As soon as my…
