I recently spoke with an anthropologist named Barry Hewlett who studies child-rearing in hunter-gatherer societies in Central Africa. He explained to me that children in those societies spend lots of time with their parents — they tag along throughout the day and often help with tasks like foraging — but they are rarely the main object of their parents’ attention. Sometimes bored, sometimes engaged, these kids spend much of their time observing adults doing adult things. (View Highlight)
Al evaluar cualquier declaración sobre estilos de crianza, es importante tener como parámetro o referente la historia evolutiva de este fenómeno.
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This intensive, often frantic style of parenting requires a lot more effort than the style Professor Hewlett described. I found myself thinking about those hunter-gatherers last month when I read the advisory from the surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, warning that many parents are stressed to their breaking point. (View Highlight)
For most of human history, people had lots of kids, and children hung out in intergenerational social groups in which they were not heavily supervised. Your average benign-neglect day care is probably closer to the historical experience of child care than that of a kid who spends the day alone with a doting parent. (View Highlight)
mindful underparenting (View Highlight)
More important, following adults around gives children the tremendous gift of learning to tolerate boredom, which fosters patience, resourcefulness and creativity. There is evidence from neuroscience that a resting brain is not an idle one. The research tells us that the mind gets busy when it is left alone to do its own thing — in particular, it tends to think about other people’s minds. If you want to raise empathetic, imaginative children who can figure out how to entertain themselves, don’t keep their brains too occupied (View Highlight)
¿Cómo pensar esta misma observación desde el sistema educacional, en donde hay constante presión para hacer que cada momento sea productivo en términos de desarrollo y aprendizaje?
helicopter parents (View Highlight)
en línea con los propuesto por Jonathan Haidt.
In an ideal world, we would set children loose to roam free outdoors, unsupervised (View Highlight)
create safe environments where lightly supervised kids can roam freely. (View Highlight)