El arte perdido de educar

The oldest cultures in the world have always mastered the art of raising happy, well-adjusted children. What can we learn from them? A must-read for moms and dads looking for smart and creative solutions to the parenting problems that most worry and frustrate us. After becoming a mother, science journalist Michaeleen Doucleff, curious to learn about more effective parenting methods than we currently practice in the West, decides to visit a Mayan village in the Yucatan Peninsula. She there she meets moms and dads who are in a totally different way than we are and who raise extraordinarily kind, generous and helpful children without having to yell or scold them. She quickly realizes that most of the great challenges that Western parents face, such as instilling kindness, empathy and trust in children, are not a problem in other cultures. But what else are we missing from ancient wisdom? After asking this question, the author decides to leave with her three-year-old daughter Rosy to learn and practice parenting strategies from different families in three of the most venerable communities in the world: the Mayans in Mexico, the Inuit on the Arctic Circle, and the hadzabe in Tanzania. These families demonstrate that they do not have the same problems with children that we do and they manage to build a very different relationship with the little ones that is based on cooperation instead of control, trust instead of fear, and personalized needs instead of development. standardized.