Culture and Discipline

After you’ve completed the reading please answer the questions:

What is culture and how does it affect parenting style? How has culture affected your parenting style (rituals, communication, affection, discipline, etc.)?
What is the difference between discipline and punishment? Which discipline technique makes the most sense to you and why?

SOURCE CREDITING
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Textbook source crediting:
Below is how the course textbooks should be source credited.

In the body of a forum post:

(Brooks, 2011)

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Brooks, Jane (2011). The Process of Parenting (8th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill

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Culture is the totality in which social behavior beliefs, arts, [patterns and all product of human work are transmitted. Every type of culture has its own parenting styles. This will depend with how former parents used to do it. For instance in the western culture parenting is all about helping a child have self esteem and build their self image. In the eastern culture, parenting is about discipline and obedience. Parents expect children to follow all what they want even if it means forcing them to do it (Schönpflug, 2008

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