The unusual ways Western parents raise children

Re:The unusual ways Western parents raise children by jjav on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @01:23PM (#26253545)

> Children in the West today already spend more time with parents than at any point in the past

That's not what the article says. It compares to just 50 years ago, which is well into the industrialized world of two working parents in the office away from home.

Just a bit farther back, like with my grandparents era, kids grew up on the family farm, with their parents 24x7, learning by example from them.

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Re:The unusual ways Western parents raise children by astura on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @01:51PM (#26253944)

How much of that "24x7" time was actually time spent together? When I was growing up kids and adults barely interacted with each other, most of the time kid(s) would be in one area of the house (or outside) doing their own thing and adult(s) would be somewhere else doing their own thing. This wasn't just my house either, it was normal.

Nowadays it's totally the opposite (and it's completely insane)

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Re:The unusual ways Western parents raise children by nix23 on Thursday February 25, 2021 @09:49AM (#26263281)

That's exactly what i meant with Adventure preparers, and not the Kids Entertainers :)

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