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What Moms are Doing Right
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8:00 pm
February 20, 2012


Kathy Seal and Wendy Grolnick, PhD

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Parenting Country by Country? How about Just Doing What’s Right for Children?

With Pamela Druckerman’s new book Bringing Up Bébé extolling Gallic parenting, parents can now choose between parenting the French way or the so-called Chinese way presented last year by Amy Chua’s sensational Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Druckerman wants us to just say no, while Chua writes about doing whatever it takes, including berating our children, to demand excellence.

The media storm over these various "foreign" methods of parenting makes us ask, what’s wrong with the way we do it? Why look to stories about other countries for advice…


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8:13 pm
February 27, 2012


helenhews

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Telling the truth I like this post. It contains information that is useful for me as I'm a mother of a 4-year old child. I totally agree that we should first turn to our own rules and traditions of breeding children. Other cultures have different attitudes towards this issue. It actually depends on the religion and other factors. Thus there is no use in 100% following of the fashion on new trends in breeding children and experience of our nation. However, it's obvious that there are some points that can't be agnored.

5:27 pm
April 10, 2012


Algae

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Thanks for this post. I liked the reminder that it's not all or nothing in the world.