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1 Parenting Across Cultures Anna Leebeck University of Arizona Global Campus ECE 355: Understanding Behavior & Family Dynamics Dr. Holly Lopez January 30, 2023

PARENTING ACROSS CULTURES 2 Raising Children Parenting children without over-protecting is complex and can cause more issues than allowing for natural consequences of exploring a child’s environment. While watching the documentary, Babies , in the United States, chewing on a bone that was in the dirt would be viewed as a potential choking hazard or bacterial exposure, however the bone Panijao chewed on was larger than could be easily swallowed and the sound of his mother’s voice proved he was nearby. Unlike Bayar climbing on a rusty barrel, there was no parental supervision in the scene. Children learn about their environment mainly through tactile exploration – touch, taste, smell, and how things look. Both of these children were exploring their environment in ways that culturally have always been accepted and done. Children of Asian heritage are taught self- reliance at a very early stage, and the level of interaction between both parents with him and the sibling in the documentary indicates that in the Mongolian culture, it starts at birth. When raising my two children, once they became mobile, they explored their environment the same way Ponijao and Bayar did. I will admit, however, that the level of supervision and interaction was higher than that of the boys’ respective families. Exploration allowed them to learn natural consequences that went with the world around them, up to and including interacting with animals. Microbial exposure is beneficial when balanced with an adequate level of hygiene. (Finlay, 2017) Allowing both children to explore and be exposed to microbes in their environment lessens the likelihood that either would develop a disease such as asthma. In many aspects, the comparison to the parenting styles shown by these two boys’ parents was and is very representative of the methods employed in my own home. However, my spouse and I were much more interactive than the parents portrayed in the documentary.

PARENTING ACROSS CULTURES 3 Culture & Play Hattie’s parents were highly interactive in play and everyday interactions, such as the baby music and gym class. Mari’s mother was similarly involved in her social interactions. Mari was given much smaller items to play or interact with than typically given to US children, even with parental supervision. The cultural expectation of learning is evident in the exposure of the smaller manipulatives and the abacus on Mari’s play table; play is meant to enhance your education in Japan in a very focused manner, whereas in the United States,currently play is less centered on academic readiness or exposure than gross and fine motor development and when possible social development. However, Hattie demonstrated having many baby dolls to play with, which ties into gender identification and potential exposure to gender intensification at a young age (Wardle & Fitzpatrick, 2016). The United States and Japan are considered first-world countries, and the level of parental involvement is evident; however, Japanese parents are more likely to follow suit with less intense interaction, like Mongolian parents. The cultural aspect that was interconnected between the four families depicted in the documentary is just that, of family. Bayar, Ponijao, Mari, and Hattie all depict different levels of family involvement. The communal aspect of Ponijao’s family was evident in that multiple generations or extensions of the family are together daily to operate on a communal level. The remaining three families depicted offered at least one family gathering of multiple generations and the sharing of a custom such as a birthday or a holiday. Central Themes Ultimately the fact that, in some manner, all cultures place a high value on family connectedness is considered a central theme of this documentary. While the various families' living conditions and economic status are depicted, multigenerational experiences and even

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