Family Looking Up
Family Looking Up
Family Looking Up
Ep. 232. Raising Calm, Helpful Kids Using Century Old Ways - Guest Michaeleen Doucleff
52 minutes Posted Apr 5, 2022 at 12:00 pm.
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We have an incredible episode this week with author Michaleen Doucleff. In Hunt, Gather, Parent, Doucleff sets out with her three-year-old daughter in tow to learn and practice parenting strategies from families in three of the world’s most venerable communities: Maya families in Mexico, Inuit families above the Arctic Circle, and Hadzabe families in Tanzania. She sees that these cultures don’t have the same problems with children that Western parents do. Most strikingly, parents build a relationship with young children that is vastly different from the one many Western parents develop - it’s built on cooperation instead of control, trust instead of fear, and personalized needs instead of standardized development milestones.