
Do Parents Matter?
Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican Siblings Don't Fight and Parents Should Just Relax
Souvenir Press Ltd
Published on 1. March 2017
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-285-64370-3 (ISBN)
Description
In Do Parents Matter? anthropologists (and grandparents) Robert & Sarah LeVine investigate the diversity of parenting practices across the world - from the USA to Africa, Japan to Mexico - and come away with a reassuring conclusion: children tend to turn out to be the same well-adjusted adults all around the world no matter the parenting style.
Japanese children sleep with their parents well into primary school, women of the Hausa tribe (largely based in Nigeria) avoid verbal and eye contact with their toddlers; Western parenting frowns on both practices but Japanese children show higher than average levels of empathy while Hausa children seem quite content. The Levines' fascinating global investigation discovers the practices and experiences of parents from around the world, and comes away with profound lessons from other cultures on how to build a family.
This in-depth survey of parenting practices across the world is based on almost 50 years of research, concluding: there is no one-size-fits-all approach to parenting, free yourself from expert advice and learn to relax.
Japanese children sleep with their parents well into primary school, women of the Hausa tribe (largely based in Nigeria) avoid verbal and eye contact with their toddlers; Western parenting frowns on both practices but Japanese children show higher than average levels of empathy while Hausa children seem quite content. The Levines' fascinating global investigation discovers the practices and experiences of parents from around the world, and comes away with profound lessons from other cultures on how to build a family.
This in-depth survey of parenting practices across the world is based on almost 50 years of research, concluding: there is no one-size-fits-all approach to parenting, free yourself from expert advice and learn to relax.
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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
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Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
445 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-285-64370-3 (9780285643703)
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Robert A. Levine | Sarah LeVine
Do Parents Matter?
Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican Siblings Don't Fight and Parents Should Just Relax
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Robert LeVine is the Roy E. Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development, Emeritus, at Harvard University.
Sarah LeVine is an anthropologist who has conducted research on four continents and coordinated the fieldwork of the Project on Maternal Schooling. They have brought up two children and now have three grandchildren.
Sarah LeVine is an anthropologist who has conducted research on four continents and coordinated the fieldwork of the Project on Maternal Schooling. They have brought up two children and now have three grandchildren.