How Anthropologists Raise Children Overseas: What Missionary Parents Can Learn
By Miriam Adeney
Like missionaries, anthropologists who take their children overseas face a number of challenges. Joal Cassell's Children in the Field (1987) presents essays by nearly a dozen such anthropologists. Schooling; health care; local babysitters with different childrearing customs; siblings who adapt differently; the birth of a child; the death of a child; children as bridges; children as impediments--all are explored, along with many useful logistical strategies. A particularly intriguing finding is that several children criticize their parents for too much cultural adaptation. Might missionary children raise the same cry? How could parents respond? Read more... (in PDF format)
1 Comments:
It is good that missionaries now have a choice in how to educate their children. I believe it is the responsibility of parents to educate their children. This may or may not include formal schooling. So much of what a child needs to learn is never taught is formal schooling. Living in another culture opens many new learning experiences.
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