Cultural Differences Between Babies And Child Development

There are so many positives and negatives to each culture in terms of how different rearing methods and cultural beliefs and practices affect the development of the child. Babies from different countries are born in different places with different facilities. Some are born in a hut some in a western birthing center with the help of medical equipment and technicians and some start their journey to home with parents and a sibling on a motorcycle. There are similarities and differences between the cultures all over the world. Babies have different experiences with their caregivers/adults which contributes to the language development. Some babies who have the most parent interaction start cooing and babbling earlier than the babies whose parents
The extra/other resources like baby classes, toys, parks and shopping malls etc. are not necessary components to determine the advantage in the development. Baby though given many different toys, books, and playgroups for infant and parental interaction, need not appear to be any happy or healthy in their daily life. But they seem to be discontented and temperamental by the surrounding around them and often cry. On contrast, children taken to playgroups with toys, other children, and books look very content in their daily life and very rarely cry. They have the same resources but completely different temperaments. This clearly indicates that the materialistic elements are not a necessary factor in positive healthy child development. Many of the babies show the reflex of rooting when they turn and open their mouth to find their mother's
This shows that the environmental factors can have impact on a baby's development and the rate of development. In some cultures, we even see the "quality daddy-child time". Most compelling is how these children are shaped by the level of independence granted to them. Children from rural areas grow up in a culture where the parents don't have the luxury of hovering over the child, and as a result, child is likely to grow up with a very specific personality and mindset. In contrast when Mari as earlier mentioned while responding to the problem of the getting wooden blocks to do exactly what she wants them to. As she throws one hilariously overwrought tantrum after another as her construction project fails, it's hard not to find a cultural component in how these children respond to having their will frustrated. There are differences in parenting and lifestyles some parent's style of parenting seems to be backbone style i.e. authoritative whereas some parents have jellyfish parenting style in this parenting style parents can be permissive and indulgent. Parents who always try to control their children and have lots of expectations from children are