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A travel of global techniques that will motivate American parents to grow their horizons (and physical borders) and find out that there's more than one way to diaper a baby. Mei-Ling Hopgood, a first-time mommy from suburban Michigan - now living in Buenos Aires - was surprised that Argentine parents allow their children to stay until all hours of the night. Could there really be cultural and developmental benefits to this custom? Influenced by the journalist's curiosity and a new mother's desperation for answers, Hopgood embarked on a journey to learn how other cultures tackle the problems all parents face: bedtimes, toilet training, feeding, teaching, and more. Watching parents around the world and interviewing anthropologists, educators, and child-care experts, she learned a world of new ideas. The Chinese excel at toilet training, teaching their wee ones as young as six months old. Kenyans wear their babies in colorful towel slings - it's not only part with their cultural heritage, but strollers appear outright silly on Nairobi's chaotic sidewalks. Plus the France are experts at turning their babies into healthy, ambitious eaters. Hopgood examined her discoveries on her spirited toddler, Sofia, with some enlightening results. This intimate and surprising look at the ways other ethnicities increase children offers parents the choice of tinkering with tried and true methods from surrounding the world and shows that there are extensive ways to be always a good parent.
