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20 Ways to Be a Jewish Mother

By Barbara Greenberg — 2016

Today we are going to spend a considerable amount of time discussing the desirable characteristics of such mothers. A quick disclaimer -- these characteristics do not apply to all Jewish mamas and they are a bit stereotypical but let's have a little fun today praising the often critiqued. Everyone deserves their day, right?

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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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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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How I Raise My Daughter in a House With 2 Completely Different Cultures

From the moment we found out we were pregnant, my husband and I promised we would raise our child to embrace both of her cultures and have her spend holidays in both Ghana and the US.

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Jacquelene Amoquandoh
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Parenting Practices around the World are Diverse and Not All about Attachment

Most parents would agree that parenting is extremely complex and challenging. What works for one child, might not work for another—even within the same family.

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Sam Carr
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A Child Raised by Many Mothers: What We Can Learn about Parenthood from an Indigenous Group in Brazil

The Kraho people believe a child should have more than one mother. It’s so ingrained in the culture that the Kraho children use the word “inxe” for both their biological mother and their mother’s sisters or the women their mother considers as sisters, even if they’re not related by blood.

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Sofia Perpetua
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I’m Reconciling My Culture’s Worst Attributes to Raise a Feminist Son

Irina Gonzalez is teaching her son to embrace the beauty and diversity that exists within the Latinx community, not the stereotypes she was exposed to in her own childhood.

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Irina Gonzalez
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Culturally Specific Parenting Perspectives