Comparing child-rearing practices
(from Lareau’s Unequal Childhoods)
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‘Concerted cultivation’ | |
Key elements | Parent actively fosters and assesses child’s talents, opinions, and skills |
Organization of daily life | Multiple child leisure activities orchestrated by adults |
Language use | Reasoning/directives Child contestation of adult statements Extended negotiations between parents and child |
Interventions in institutions | Criticisms and interventions on behalf of child Training of child to take on this role |
Consequences | Emerging sense of entitlement on the part of the child |
Time and money | Money may rarely be discussed (but is usually available when needed); Attending events parent/teacher conferences, etc., and getting off work |
Annette Lareau. 2012. Unequal Childhoods (2nd edition). Berkeley: University of California Press.
