The And Japanese Cultures Have A Very Unique Perspective Of How Children Should Be Raised

In the book Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited, the authors, Joseph Tobin, Yeh Hsueh, and Mayumi Karasawa, look into preschools in three cultures: China, Japan, and the United States. Prior to writing this books, the authors did research on one preschool in each of the countries to see what the learning styles were and how they compared to one another. Then they went back some twenty years later to see if there were any changes in the preschools. The changes, or lack thereof, brought about the book Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited.

However, in order to become a successful human being, human nature is something that to a certain extent needs to be individually developed through one’s own challenges and experiences. At some point in a person’s life, significantly at an early age, they are ultimately helpless, therefore they need the attention and guidance of the family to be put on the right path to achieve and flourish as a human being. This is why the family is the core of humanization and education. This is where the values of family and responsibility play a vital role in guiding and promoting the right beliefs and concepts for the development of successful, well-developed human beings. This also means that mothers have an extremely important role in the East Asian families, because they nourish and educate their children from adolescence till they can become independently grown individuals (Magagna, Oct 13). Such nourishment and uprising, also requires the person to experience events solely by themselves, forming their own opinion and judgment. Therefore, requiring one to self-cultivate and prosper. While the Self-cultivation can be done anywhere, the most important and logical place to do it would be at home, where one receives the humanization and education from their parents. Even if the individual can’t go to college to develop such experiences, they can still receive the self-cultivation to the wider world at home from their family (Magagna, Oct 13). Therefore, this means that the

After watching the documentary, “Babies”, I learned specifically about the social interaction between babies and their mothers. Socialization is a huge part in the younger years of life because it sets a basis of social norms that should be followed in that certain baby’s society throughout their life. There were four families touched on in the documentary from four different countries; Japan, Mongolia, Africa and America. Many similarities and differences were recognized and easily helped illustrate how diverse the world is.

The findings reflect on the way children are brought up. In Germany, even working mothers are rare, children are encouraged to be independent and self-reliant. Also, greater personal distance is the norm and proximity seeking is not encouraged. These experiences lead young children to show less anxiety about separation and be classed as avoidant. In Japan, children rarely are separated from mother, which explains why Japanese

Questions have been raised on whether Chinese parenting raises more flourishing children than Western parenting. Despite what people think, in Amy Chua's essay “The Roar of the Tiger Mom”, she portrays the differences between the beliefs of Chinese parenting and Western parenting. Chua introduces the views of a Chinese parent compared to the views of a Western parent. The methods used by Chinese mothers in raising their children are drastically different from Western mothers. Each defends their methods and believes the other group is doing their job poorly. In the end, both types of parents just want one thing-- successful children.

Children learn to act in accordance to their culture due to what their parents teach them and what they learn in school. Different countries have their own way of cooking, driving and most important, teaching. A child who is in a preschool in America, will not experience the same cultural activities as a child in China or Japan. The video Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited demonstrates how preschools in these three countries teach their students in accordance to their culture. This video also shows different Behaviorism and Constructivism aspects for each school.

According to our textbook, Myron W. Lustig defines cultural patterns as “shared beliefs, values, norms, and social practices that are stable over time and that lead to roughly similar behaviors across similar situations”. By documenting the four infants from different regions of the world and capturing their first breaths throughout toddlerhood, it offers a glimpse of the major differences in cultures and methods of child-raising. The film carefully captures the different cultural contrasts of the babies through methods of sanitation and haircuts, differing pets and toys each interact with. From spit baths, tongue baths, and showering in the arms of the parent, we discover the sanitization methods of the differing cultures in the way the children are bathed. From haircuts with a knife or shears, we learn of the cultures development compared to one another. With Ponijao’s hair being cut with a knife rather than shears, we understand that Namibia is less developed. Also by analyzing their pets differing between cats, dogs, flies or farm animals and the toys they play with such as books, lego blocks, rocks, bones, we learn of their environments, their parents and their financial statuses.

It is true that the ways the parents raise their children will decide how well the children grow, especially the mothers who impact their children the most. There is no right or wrong in how a mother takes care of her children. All of them want the best for their children. The only difference is the level of intensity in how to raise a child. In Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior, Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School believes that the ways Chinese mothers raise their children are the most effective ways. Her main purpose of this article is to state the differences between Western mothers and Chinese mothers which

Chua presents the views that Chinese mothers have about bringing up their children and the weaknesses they see in western parenting. Rosin writes in response to Chua and in defense of western parenting and points out some weaknesses in Chinese parenting. This paper will explore the difference between the Chinese and the Western parenting models as presented by Chua and Rosin. At the beginning of her article, Why Chinese Mothers Are

In Kaibara Ekiken’s Common Sense Teachings for Japanese Children it describes throughout what Japanese children are to learn and how they are to behave once they reach a certain age. Such as at age six or seven they will learn Japanese pronunciation and how to write. They will also be taught to respect their elders and boys and girls will no longer be allowed to sit together.

According to a cross-culture study, there was an absence of avoidant children in Japan, which is inconsistent with Ainsworth attachment model (Miake, Chen, and Campos, 1985, as cited in Keller, 2013). The explanation for this phenomenon is that the Japanese culture emphasized the importance of mother-parent bonding. Japanese mothers are always available and

I believe that Ponijao from Namibia and Bayar from Mongolia, shared similar experiences because their home was in isolated farming communities. The children’s homes reflected the cultural beliefs of

The generally accepted way in which children in a society are raised, constitutes its philosophical and social child rearing practice. Child-rearing research has focused on understanding differences in parent’s beliefs and values, characteristics of cultural socialization, and the implications of such variations. “Chinese parents traditionally stress their authority over their children and expect unquestioning obedience from them” (Chiu 1987). In America, a parent’s main focus is what they should do for their children to help them succeed in life; Chinese parents raise their children to do what is best for their parents and society. Significant differences were found in Chinese,

In the changing society, Japanese family is facing many challenges. Some of them are fail to adapt the changing environment. Tokyo Sonata portrays some problems in contemporary Japanese dysfunctional families such as communication problems. In this article, we are going to illustrate them one by one.

When we think of parenting, the first thing that comes to mind is that it is a process of raising a child from an infant to adulthood. What we do not immediately think of how everyone does it or how differently everyone does it. The main goal is raising the child, but the way you do it plays a great role in how that child turns out. There are different impacts that form who we are as individuals and our parents play a huge role in that. Our culture also helps us become who we are. Cultures vary from throughout the world and throughout each family. The way parents raise us through love and affection, discipline and experiences form us as human beings. This brings us to our topic regarding the story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan.