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In many respects, it's "modern" parenting behavior. Example, if you let a baby cry at night it will usually stop crying after a few weeks. Once kids hit ~7 ye
by throwaway189262 6y ago
In many respects, it's "modern" parenting behavior.
Example, if you let a baby cry at night it will usually stop crying after a few weeks.
Once kids hit ~7 years old it used to be normal to let them wander around the house and neighborhood unsupervised. In most unwesternized countries it still is.
That's how the average family has 6+ kids in some countries. They're only actively caring for a few at a time.
Taking such a relaxed view to parenting in the west would get your kids taken away
- em-bee 6y agoletting babies sleep alone is a modern parenting behavior. kids mostly used to sleep together with their parents before. aside from that, older kids took care of younger kids, neighborhood groups took care of children together, older relatives who could no longer do hard work supervised the children...
- ghaff 6y agoAnd women were typically in or around the home.