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One would have to question if yelling, negotiating, and arguing with a child is the norm worldwide. If not, how do other parents manage to be calmer parents sans the tension and power struggles? Some families from hunting-gathering villages are highlighted as an example of calmer parenting.
Calmer Parents Rarely Need to Tell Their Kids What to Do
Anthropologist Sheina Lew-Levy conducted a study with BaYaka hunter-gatherers in Central Africa. She observed adults rarely needed to tell their children what to do, which is only about three verbal commands per hour, Time shared. The anthropologist noted such parents interfered minimally, have confidence in the children, and restrained themselves from constant meddling.
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Hunt, Gather, Parent Offers Lessons Collected Around The World
There are many parenting books out there. But NPR s Michaeleen Doucleff says all the parenting books that she read after becoming a mom left a lot out. I m trained as a scientist. I spent seven years as a chemist and I really believed that the parenting advice we got today was backed by really stringent scientific research, she says. And when I started looking at the studies as a scientist, I was really, really let down.
She couldn t find answers to the trouble that she was having with her young daughter, Rosy.
Hunt, Gather, Parent Offers Lessons Collected Around The World npr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from npr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.