St. Kitts: A Cultural Analysis

Culture has a powerful effect on parenting practices and styles. People from different culture tend to have different beliefs and practices when it comes to child-rearing. Culture difference can affect the way an individual relates with children from diverse families.
I was born and raised in St. Kitts. I was raised in a nuclear family and St. Kitts has always being my home. Growing up my parents shared parenting responsibilities, thus, each had a role to play in our life. My family is very individualistic and beliefs in being independent, therefore, my siblings and I have learnt to be self-reliant and independent.
Importantly, in my culture we believe that physical punishment should not be used as a discipline approach towards children. Most parents in my culture use physical punishment as a last–resort strategy which is used in cases of serious misbehavior. Having a conversation with the children and making them understand the seriousness of their
Parents should be accountable and responsible in their actions and should act as a role model to the children. Parents should be in a position to uncover the talent and the latent abilities in their children and encourage the good behaviors and discourage the bad ones (Durgel, van de Vijver & Yagmurlu, 2013). Consequently, it is vital for a caregiver to communicate with children to help them learn and develop their verbal skills. Working with a diverse family that realizes the importance of communication between the caregiver and the child can make my work easier and the child’s development would be faster. Furthermore, I am of the view that disability is not inability and it cannot prevent a child with disability from achieving his dreams. Therefore, working with a family that has negative attitudes towards disability, can have negative effects on my work as it would be difficult to change their perceptions about