000			03893cam a2200433 i 4500
001			948878683
003			OCoLC
005			20190729110429.0
008			160505s2016 nyua b 001 0 eng
010			_a2016012384
020			_a9781610397230 (hardback)
020			_a1610397231 (hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)948878683
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCF _dJAI _dFM0 _dJQM _dBUR _dCOO _dIEU _dUPZ _dYDX _dOCLCO _dOCLCA
042			_apcc
050			_aHQ755.8 _b.L4894 2016
100	1		_aLeVine, Robert A. _q(Robert Alan), _d1932-
245	1	0	_aDo parents matter? : _bwhy Japanese babies sleep soundly, Mexican siblings don't fight, and American families should just relax / _cRobert A. LeVine and Sarah LeVine
250			_aFirst edition
264		1	_aNew York : _bPublicAffairs, _c[2016]
300			_axxiii, 238 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index
505	0		_aWe the parents: a worldwide perspective -- Parent-blaming in America -- Expecting: pregnancy and birth -- Infant care: a world of questions... and some answers -- Mother and infant: face-to-face or skin-to-skin? -- Sharing child care: Mom is not enough -- Training toddlers: talking, toileting, tantrums, and tasks -- Childhood: school, responsibility, and control -- Precocious children: cultural priming by parents and others -- Conclusions
520			_a"In some parts of northwestern Nigeria, mothers studiously avoid making eye contact with their babies. Some Chinese parents go out of their way to seek confrontation with their toddlers. Japanese parents almost universally co-sleep with their infants, sometimes continuing to share a bed with them until age ten. Yet all these parents are as likely as Americans to have loving relationships with happy children. If these practices seem bizarre, or their results seem counterintuitive, it's not necessarily because other cultures have discovered the keys to understanding children. It might be more appropriate to say there are no keys-but Americans are driving themselves crazy trying to find them. When we're immersed in news articles and scientific findings proclaiming the importance of some factor or other, we often miss the bigger picture: that parents can only affect their children so much. Robert and Sarah LeVine, married anthropologists at Harvard University, have spent their lives researching parenting across the globe-starting with a trip to visit the Hausa people of Nigeria as newlyweds in 1969. Their decades of original research provide a new window onto the challenges of parenting and the ways that it is shaped by economic, cultural, and familial traditions. Their ability to put our modern struggles into global and historical perspective should calm many a nervous mother or father's nerves. It has become a truism to say that American parents are exhausted and overstressed about the health, intelligence, happiness, and success of their children. But as Robert and Sarah LeVine show, this is all part of our culture. And a look around the world may be just the thing to remind us that there are plenty of other choices to make"-- _cProvided by publisher
650		0	_aParenting _vCross-cultural studies
650		0	_aChild rearing _vCross-cultural studies
650		0	_aChild development _vCross-cultural studies
650		0	_aFamilies _vCross-cultural studies
650		0	_aEthnopsychology
655		7	_aCross-cultural studies. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423769
700	1		_aLeVine, Sarah, _d1940-
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aLeVine, Robert Alan, 1932- author. _tDo parents matter? _bFirst edition. _dNew York : PublicAffairs, [2016] _z9781610397247 _w(DLC) 2016021480
596			_a1
948			_au612217
903			_a33222
999			_c33222 _d33222