HDF 304 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article: Nso People, Flatulence, Parenting Styles
7 Dec 2017
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Face-to-face interaction is the foundation of modern western parenting. This is how we explain what it means to be human, this is how we show emotion, this is how we communicate, this is how we make funny flatulence sounds. We think this sort of dyadic interaction as what parenting is. German psychologist heidi keller once ran a brilliant experiment in which she showed german mothers and cameroonian nso mothers footage of the parenting style of the other. The german mothers had the most difficulty comprehending the lack of face-to-face exchanges among the nso. These pare(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g styles do(cid:374)"t (cid:272)lea(cid:448)e alo(cid:374)g u(cid:374)de(cid:448)eloped-developed lines. Middle-class american mothers spend twice as much face-to-face with their babies as middle- class japanese mothers. It is not just what babies see, it is also what they hear as well. 40 percent of what the west african mothers said referred to someone else.
