1st Edition

Intercultural Parenting How Eastern and Western Parenting Styles Affect Child Development

By Koong Hean Foo Copyright 2019
    252 Pages
    by Routledge

    252 Pages
    by Routledge

    How do parenting styles differ globally? How do different, international, parenting practices impact on children’s development? Can we bring together and hybridise different international parenting styles?

    Intercultural Parenting explores the relationship between family, culture and parenting by reviewing established and evolving Western and Eastern parenting styles and their impact on children’s development. Authoritarian, authoritative, permissive and neglecting approaches, as well as newer techniques such as helicopter parenting, are compared with filial, tiger and training approaches, and mixed parenting styles. Practical application sections show how cultural understanding can help demonstrate how professionals might use the information and ideas in their clinical work, whilst parental questionnaires encourage self-assessment and reflection. Dr. Foo Koong Hean brings together the traditional and evolving approaches to the art of parenting practices and also showcases relatively neglected research on Eastern parenting practices.

    This book is important reading for childcare professionals such as health visitors, early years’ teachers and those in mental health, as well as students in family studies and developmental psychology.

    Chapter 1. Introduction to Family, Parenting, and influencing Factors

    Chapter 2. Fathering versus Mothering?

    Chapter 3. Western (Individual) Parentings Styles

    Chapter 4. Eastern (Collectivistic) Parenting Styles

    Chapter 5. Comparing Parenting Styles

    Chapter 6. Role of Significant Others

    Chapter 7: Assessing your parenting style

    Chapter 8. Overview of Parenting

    Biography

    Dr. Foo Koong Hean is a psychotherapist and an adjunct senior lecturer at James Cook University, Singapore.