A Good Read How Eskimos Keep
Their Babies Warm Mei-Ling Hopgood
Parenting is a funny business.
Everyone has
an opinion on how to do things, from potty training to bedtimes - and that is only friends and family.
Imagine how many diff erent
views on these everyday aspects of a child’s life exist across the world...
Mei-Ling Hopgood’s fascinating book explores a range of ideas from across the globe, looking at how ‘normal’ practice in one culture may seem unusual, if not downright odd, in another. Hopgood writes from the parent’s perspective, and the book is part social history and part memoir as she tries to apply diff erent strategies with her own daughter.
Whilst some of the issues here are familiar to many, from newspaper headlines and popular studies, others are genuinely new and absorbing to the reader. We all know that the French have a reputation for appreciating good food, and Hopgood’s exploration of mealtimes at a French nursery school serve to explain how children come to see food as more than just fuel. However, the ways in which Japanese children are encouraged to work confl icts out for themselves, even if that means coming to blows, and the reality of how and why Kenyan parents manage without pushchairs, are small revelations which lead us to wonder about how we perceive growing up.
Hopgood’s style is a mixture of anecdote, example and research, meaning that the book is always readable and is educational in the best of ways - you fi nd out an awful lot, and you don’t always realise how much you are learning.
Not a bad way of thinking about teaching children either... 8
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