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Sunday, October 25, 2015

How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm by Mei-Ling Hopgood

I recently finished reading this book borrowed from my local library; I picked it up at random from the shelves as I attempted to quickly get my three kids ages 5 and under out of there before we broke something. I found the concept behind the book appealing, the author tackles a different aspect of parenting in each chapter, demonstrates how another culture handles the issue, analyzes the differences in the cultures of child rearing and follows up with a vignette of how the Ms. Hopgood applies some things to her own parenting. For example,chapter 4 discusses potty training and how the Chinese potty train  much earlier than most western parents and Ms. Hopgood was able to incorporate some of the ideas in potty training her own daughter.