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Is the Western way of raising kids weird?
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2751" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210222-the-unusual-ways-western-parents-raise-children" target="_blank"><strong>Is the Western way of raising kids weird? - BBC</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>From sleeping in separate beds to their children to transporting them in prams, Western parents have some unusual ideas about how to raise them.</strong></p><p></p><p>"Is he in his own room yet?" is a question new parents often field once they emerge from the haze of life with a newborn. But sleeping apart from our babies is a relatively recent development – and not one that extends around the globe. In other cultures sharing a room, and sometimes a bed, with your baby is the norm.</p><p></p><p>This isn’t the only aspect of new parenthood that Westerners do differently. From <a href="https://www.basisonline.org.uk/culture-history-infant-sleep/" target="_blank">napping</a> <a href="https://www.basisonline.org.uk/culture-history-infant-sleep/" target="_blank">on a schedule</a> and <a href="https://www.basisonline.org.uk/hcp-sleep-training-and-managing-infant-sleep/" target="_blank">sleep training</a> to <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1040036/" target="_blank">pushing our children around in strollers</a>, what we might think of as standard parenting practices are often anything but.</p><p></p><p>Parents in the US and UK are advised to have their <a href="https://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/safer-sleep-advice/" target="_blank">babies sleep in the same room as them</a> <a href="https://www.aap.org/en-us/advocacy-and-policy/aap-health-initiatives/safe-sleep/Pages/Safe-Sleep-Recommendations.aspx" target="_blank">for at least the first six months</a>, but many view this as a brief stopover on their way to a dedicated nursery.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2751, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210222-the-unusual-ways-western-parents-raise-children'][B]Is the Western way of raising kids weird? - BBC[/B][/URL] [B]From sleeping in separate beds to their children to transporting them in prams, Western parents have some unusual ideas about how to raise them.[/B] "Is he in his own room yet?" is a question new parents often field once they emerge from the haze of life with a newborn. But sleeping apart from our babies is a relatively recent development – and not one that extends around the globe. In other cultures sharing a room, and sometimes a bed, with your baby is the norm. This isn’t the only aspect of new parenthood that Westerners do differently. From [URL='https://www.basisonline.org.uk/culture-history-infant-sleep/']napping[/URL] [URL='https://www.basisonline.org.uk/culture-history-infant-sleep/']on a schedule[/URL] and [URL='https://www.basisonline.org.uk/hcp-sleep-training-and-managing-infant-sleep/']sleep training[/URL] to [URL='https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1040036/']pushing our children around in strollers[/URL], what we might think of as standard parenting practices are often anything but. Parents in the US and UK are advised to have their [URL='https://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/safer-sleep-advice/']babies sleep in the same room as them[/URL] [URL='https://www.aap.org/en-us/advocacy-and-policy/aap-health-initiatives/safe-sleep/Pages/Safe-Sleep-Recommendations.aspx']for at least the first six months[/URL], but many view this as a brief stopover on their way to a dedicated nursery. [/QUOTE]
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