How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm
by Mei-Ling Hopgood
A journalist's tour of parenting practices around the world: Argentine bedtimes, French eating, Kenyan baby-carrying, Chinese toilet training. Light, curious and freeing about how many ways work.
Read it if…
you want perspective on parenting norms from other cultures.
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Skip it if…
you want a method.
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Three things you will actually use
- There are many right ways.
- Culture, not nature, sets most norms.
- Relax.
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Pick one practice from another culture and try it for a week.
Our verdict
Freeing cultural tour.
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