It says that, in American society, the adults are usually the spectators who are watching the children. But from my observation, I think that American parents not differ from which in my country. They take care of children when they need to. They carry their hand in the supermarket but don’t often look at them. They talk by their own and let the children to play everywhere in the restaurant. However, they have much more body contact with the kids to show their emotion or their love, which is not very common in China. Sometime we do kiss babies and rub their faces by our faces, but not very often to those who are already elementary schools students.
In the survey about life after retirement, some Americans want to live in the big cities, some want to live in suburb area, but most of them want to find a warmer place to live in and live away from their children. One said that he wants to live in a house nearby the street alone, and sit in a rocking chair towards the street everyday in a bathrobe with a shot gun in hand, shout at the passing by kids. That’s funny, but from these I find that most Americans are independent, not only children but also their parents. It’s not like in my home country where a big family often live together or nearby each other. Family is a big part of an American’s life, but on another aspect, the concept of family seems not very strong for many Americans.
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Yes, that's true. I've also had the feeling that many children are rather underbred and that parents don't care about what their children are doing in the supermarket or in the restaurant. It seems to me that the laissez-faire upbringing of children is really common in the US.
ReplyDeleteYes! I think that parents and childeren here have physical communication much more Japan, too.
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