{"id":2928,"date":"2013-10-03T09:07:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T13:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2013-10-03T00:21:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T04:21:14","slug":"a-canadian-mum-abroad-parenting-cultrual-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/a-canadian-mum-abroad-parenting-cultrual-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"A Canadian Mum Abroad; Parenting Cultrual Differences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please help me welcome my guest blogger, an old friend of mine. In fact, she was one of my first friends when I moved to Canada in 1989.\u00a0 My friend M is funny, sweet & smart.\u00a0 She’s also my new hero.\u00a0 With three kids under the age of 2, she and her husband have moved across the world, from Winnipeg to New Zealand.\u00a0 \"ACMA<\/a>She decided to blog about her experiences here: http:\/\/canadianmumabroad.wordpress.com\/<\/a>. In her funny and thought provoking guest post, M chimes in about parenting differences across cultures and how in one culture what may seem like “bad parenting” is completely acceptable in another.\u00a0\u00a0Leave her a comment and let her know what you think!<\/p>\n

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Hello Mayahood Readers,<\/p>\n

I am sure many of you, like me, enjoy reading about other people’s parenting missteps, mainly because it makes us all feel better about our own parenting missteps. \u00a0I have three children under the age of two. \u00a0As such, we are spread very thin and this leads to numerous parenting missteps on pretty much an hourly basis. Don’t get me wrong, overall I think we’re doing a solid job but yes, we pick our battles. \u00a0Wearing seatbelts, brushing teeth, putting on suntan lotion are musts. \u00a0Wearing pants at the dinner table, however, is optional at best. \u00a0And that applies to me and my husband, as well.\"ACMA<\/a><\/p>\n

When I was around twenty, I spent the summer in Europe. \u00a0I still recall the feeling I had walking around Amsterdam. \u00a0No, wait, let’s be honest, stumbling <\/i>around Amsterdam. \u00a0The feeling was pure amazement that everything we are told is wrong – namely drug use and prostitution – was accepted fairly openly in the Netherlands and the country still managed to be world class with respect to every possible barometer of excellence.<\/div>\n
Which brings me to this: in Canada, even in the summertime, it is assumed that everyone wears shoes. \u00a0If you don’t wear shoes, you are considered “the crazy hippy” and if your kids don’t wear shoes, well, you are officially known as “the shitty parent”. \u00a0I recently moved to New Zealand and here, shoes are pretty well optional. \u00a0You can go shoeless into shops, including grocery stores, and most kids go shoeless to school. The other day I was driving by the local school and saw the kids running around the block and all but one was shoeless. \u00a0It is a good reminder that everything, including parenting choices, sometimes come down to cultural differences.<\/div>\n
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One such example from own life: I was at my brother’s bar mitzvah and my grandmother, an Eastern European at heart, was drinking what looked like a slushie. \u00a0 I was indescribably excited to get a slushie in a fancy glass so I asked her for one. She handed me hers and when I spat it out and exclaimed “ugh!”, she just laughed. \u00a0It was no big deal to her and indeed, I intend to get a laugh out of doing that to my own kids and grandkids one day. \u00a0My husband, who is not Eastern European, may not find it so funny but hell, I won’t berate him when he lets the kids go shoeless so I guess we’re even.\"ACMA\"<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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