Post by Gale Coleman on Jun 15, 2017 1:49:58 GMT -8
What influences your thinking?
What influences my thinking is when sensitive caregivers meet individual needs, they also may be meeting cultural needs. But without specific cultural information, caregivers can mistakenly use practices that undermine parents’ efforts and tread on their cultural values, so the issue of cultural sensitivity is more urgent now than ever before because today’s immigrants represent greater ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic diversity and their care giving practices be very different, they have different customs from families rooted in the culture of the US. But not all the people in the US culture are alike either because diversity is found in every group, people not only do things differently, but they perceive things differently, they have distinctive belief systems, perceptions of their children’s capabilities, even goals for child rearing, all of this affects their parenting practices.