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11 Parenting Styles from Around the World

By Amy Morin — 2020

Parents from various parts of the globe have different ideas about how to raise the next generation. Here are some of the differences in parenting styles from around the world.

Read on www.verywellfamily.com

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Explaining Nonbinary: How to Talk to Kids About Gender

Gender isn't limited to boys and girls, so it's time to break the habit of assuming people must be one or the other. The best place to start? Teaching the right concepts to our children.

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The Hardest Part of Having a Nonbinary Kid Is Other People

A mother recounts the pushback she received from her own family in raising a gender-nonconforming child.

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Is the Western Way of Raising Kids Weird?

From sleeping in separate beds to their children to transporting them in prams, Western parents have some unusual ideas about how to raise them.

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17 Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Stepmom

When things get tough, focus on your relationship. It'll get better.

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Life as a Stepmother is No Fairytale—I Feel Sorry for My Wife

The children are angry and vulnerable, the father sides with them out of guilt, and stepmothers are just expected to suck it all up

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Dating As a Single Parent: After the Kids Go to Bed

How to make it work at home.

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Sex and the Single Parent

How (and why) they find the time to parent and find a partner.

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Families with Diverse Cultural Backgrounds: Videos

In these videos, migrant parents from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds share their experiences of parenting and raising children in Australia.

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The Two Reasons Parents Regret Having Kids

Feelings of ambivalence about parenthood aren’t necessarily going to do harm to children. But when regret suffuses the parent-child dynamic, the whole family can suffer.

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Our Children Are Growing Up Straddling Two Different Cultures—and It’s Not Always Easy

Our child is not just one of us. He is both of us. He is both our cultures. And as a family, we are both cultures together.

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Culturally Specific Parenting Perspectives