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I am a Canadian mother of two boys. I am also an early childhood <span style="font-weight: bold">educator, a teacher,</span> and have a huge family with lots of nieces, nephews, brothers, and sisters, plus many cousins. As an <span style="font-weight: bold">educated woman</span> myself, this article is <span style="font-weight: bold">igorant</span> and biased.
First off, you can't classify every American child as being reared in the same way because America does not <span style="font-weight: bold">just have</span> one culture raising children. It has many different cultures and parenting styles from people around the world, so you can't just say ALL American families parent this way. That is actually very culturally-ignorant to say all parents in America rear their children the same way, as it is to say all French people rear their children the same way. Obviously, there are different cultures of people everywhere in both countries!
Who are you <span style="font-weight: bold">refering</span> to? The upper class? The middle class? The upper class, Suburban? Who?
Also, as a teacher myself, I have <span style="font-weight: bold">taughth</span> children from all walks of life, and you could be the richest person or the poorest person, every parent has the potential to be a 'bad parent' as you describe. It doesn't matter what 'class' or 'country' you're from. There is always amazing parents and self-absorbed parents. <span style="font-weight: bold">Nobody's perfect</span>
So, instead of making generalizations and assumptions from you have seen 'personally'. Conduct a study of 'real' American and 'real' French families from all different cultures and all different socio-economic households, and then you will have basis to write an article for Time. I'm surprised they hired you and printed this article. It's ridiculous.
Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2012/02/10/why...#ixzz1m8NJ0de9
First off, you can't classify every American child as being reared in the same way because America does not <span style="font-weight: bold">just have</span> one culture raising children. It has many different cultures and parenting styles from people around the world, so you can't just say ALL American families parent this way. That is actually very culturally-ignorant to say all parents in America rear their children the same way, as it is to say all French people rear their children the same way. Obviously, there are different cultures of people everywhere in both countries!
Who are you <span style="font-weight: bold">refering</span> to? The upper class? The middle class? The upper class, Suburban? Who?
Also, as a teacher myself, I have <span style="font-weight: bold">taughth</span> children from all walks of life, and you could be the richest person or the poorest person, every parent has the potential to be a 'bad parent' as you describe. It doesn't matter what 'class' or 'country' you're from. There is always amazing parents and self-absorbed parents. <span style="font-weight: bold">Nobody's perfect</span>
So, instead of making generalizations and assumptions from you have seen 'personally'. Conduct a study of 'real' American and 'real' French families from all different cultures and all different socio-economic households, and then you will have basis to write an article for Time. I'm surprised they hired you and printed this article. It's ridiculous.
Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2012/02/10/why...#ixzz1m8NJ0de9