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Parenting Style In Eritrea

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Parenting Style in Eritrea
The previous section of this essay dealt with the relationship between culture and parenting in Eritrea. This section seeks to explore the specificities of how culture shapes and influences parenting styles, with a particular focus on the western and south-central parts of Eritrea. In exploring of child development, culture remains as the main source of values and principles that a child is required to adopt from the early childhood ages. Therefore, Child raising mechanisms are derived from cultural norms that societies held for millennia. Parents want to transform those cultural merits to the proceeding generation. Consequently, a newly born child is required to inherit, internalize and grow up with those norms. …show more content…

Protective and promotive Parenting practices play great role for the healthy development and well-being of a child. As discussed early in this essay, quality of parenting is highly influenced by the strategies emanate from cultural teachings. Therefore, the way parents treat and administer their child retain the way they were raised and critically reflect the cultural values. Lack of flexibility in child treatment and training about development at all phases are the main challenges parents encounter in raising their child. In this section, the impact of cultural norms and society philosophies on parental disciplinary practices will be discussed in …show more content…

It is true that it is difficult for a child to identify the good and the bad things at early stages. Therefore, a child depends on parents for better treatment and seeks their assistance in creating better future starting from the early childhood period. Hence, the role of family in shaping child behavior and mentality is crucial.

The assumption of a normal and abnormal behavior is defined in terms of what culture demands. Therefore, a child is required to adopt cultural principles to be considered as a normal or good child. Deviation from those principles is seen as abnormality. To bring a child to what is considered as a normal behavior, the parents in the southern and central plateau of Eritrea use physical and verbal punishments. Children are subjected to such aggressive punishments as they violate parents ' orders and neglect demands.
Parents respond to child behavior deviated from the norms are exposed to corporal punishment such as beating, yelling and spanking. Whatever mistakes they commit, children are beaten up with sticks because stick is considered as the only tool to bring a child to what is conceived as the right path. This aggressive form of punishment is considered to be the harsh as it affects the child’s mentally and

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