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A World of Babies: Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies

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Wonderful perspective(s) on raising kids! DeLoache and Gottlieb have succeeded in making "A world of Babies" amusing, yet there's that serious undercurrent of promoting understanding. I recommend it for young moms and dads -- there are lots of good ways to bring up babies. This grandma enjoyed it tremendously. As my own mom used to say, you can make all kinds of mistakes rearing children, but as long as you give them lots of love they'll turn out fine.

I loved this book. They took all dryess out of an anthroplogic look at babies in diffrent cultures.

I just finsished this book and loved it! It is very informative, but also creative in it's format. I definatly recommend reading it if you are interested in mother/child/family relationships in various cultures in various points in history.

This book has been great! I suggest it to anyone interested in learning more about other cultures. It arrived on time, thank goodness!

I am helping throw a baby shower for a friend and social studies teacher, and we decided a great theme would be "Babies Around the World" (especially with the new "Babies" movie in theaters). I wanted to come up with some "gifts from mothers of different cultures" to give at the shower. This book had lots of ideas for that purpose, and I had a lot of fun reading everything in the book. In addition, it has also made me look at my own 6-month-old daughter in a new light - babies of many cultures are treated so differently and they all can turn out to be productive human beings (so there is no reason to panic that I am not a perfect parent)!

this book shows how babies are cared for and in some ways even honoured in seven societies around the world.some manuals are written by family members and others by respected members of the society in question(fictional members of course)
this is a good book,a change from other baby books in the sense that it is not boring and it may even give you a few tips on improving your relationship with you child or caring for them better