Recently, people are increasingly showing interest in how foreigners live. A separate topic is parenting.
Someone is so struck by the differences that they want to tell the whole world about it. People write books or articles, make videos, and blog.
If many foreigners still think that bears with accordion and earflaps walk around cities in Russia, then what about education?
Unfortunately, most people think with stereotypes, and they really believe that a nation of savages lives in Russia. Here are just those who have ever visited our country to change their minds to the opposite.
Foreign mothers understand that they have something to learn from parents from Russia, although some rules should still be circumvented.
Below are 10 rules for raising children that are not even heard of abroad.
10. Clothing by the weather
Moms from Russia are very worried about the health of their children. Partly they are right, the weather here is often not happy. Women try to wrap up their child, arguing this with the phrase: “If only it would not freeze.” They put on a child’s tights, a warm hat and pants, boots, even when outside the window plus.
Frosts rarely occur abroad, so clothing is much simpler. No one is surprised that children walk down the street in an unbuttoned jacket or without a hat, although it is sometimes cool.
In some European countries, parents rely on their child's opinion when choosing clothes. Who is right? There is no consensus. For a child’s body, both hypothermia and overheating are very harmful.
Dress your child according to the weather and do not shock foreigners. After all, even Russian people are surprised by mothers who dress a child, like at the north pole, and for themselves they choose clothes according to the weather.
9. Attitude to dad
Russian popes have little children, their main task is to provide a family. Abroad, everything is different. Both parents are equally involved in the child, or the one who earns less.
Again, women abroad are in a hurry to get to work as soon as possible. In Russia there is no such thing. The low level of salaries does not allow women to send their children to a private kindergarten or hire a nanny, so many are forced to stay at home until they give a place in the state kindergarten.
Russian children get used to seeing dad only on weekends, or even less. But they are happy to spend time with their fathers, enjoy every joint walk, every book read.
8. Proper nutrition
Foreign mothers are much easier to eat than Russian mothers. Of course, do not forget that each state has its own customs and traditions, its own national cuisine. But only in some countries, children can easily dine with pizza, pita with toppings and other "adult" dishes.
Russian mothers cook porridge every morning. If the child does not want to eat her, he is forced or persuaded. For lunch - soup, which the child is also obliged to eat.
It is clear that women do so well-intentionedly. They are right, you need to feed the baby with the right and wholesome food, but you do not need to insist. Foreign mothers will never “stuff” a child if he does not want to eat.
7. Relation to grandparents
In Russia, it is customary to rely on your parents in everything. Even when the children are already over 30, they can always ask their mom and dad for help. Many believe that grandparents must sit with their grandchildren.
Foreigners have a completely different opinion on this. Their grandparents either work or are busy with their personal lives. No one even has the idea that they should live with their grandchildren.
Russian grandmothers are a separate issue. If they do not want to take care of the children of their children, then the whole world can take up arms against them. “How so, because this is a grandmother? She should ... ”- approximately every second Russian thinks so.
Although, due to the extension of the retirement age, Russia will soon have a similar situation. Parents will have to rely only on themselves.
6. Attitude to walks
Russian mothers know that walking is very good for health. Women from other countries are very surprised when they find out that they walk with their children even in frost and rain.
Although in Europe, mothers also know about the need for walks and try not to ignore them. But in America and some Asian countries, children can sit at home all day, even if the weather is fine.
In Russia, a child walks twice a day. In summer, mothers take their children to the country, where they are on the street from morning till night. Walking favorably affects the health of the child, so Russian mothers can be praised.
5. Hobbies
Recently in Russia, developing classes have become very popular. The child still does not know how to walk, but he is already dragged into the "development". Moms want their children to grow up as worthy people, get an education, learn to sing, dance, skate.
They offer their child to go to various circles and development schools. From an early age, the child is loaded with study. All these classes are aimed at developing abilities and talents. These are not games, but full training.
Another point of view is widespread abroad. Moms think that they don’t need to strain the child. He will be in time when he grows up a little.
4. Health
Every mother wants her baby to be healthy, but childhood illnesses are inevitable. In Russia, a woman at the first sneeze will show the child to the doctor, then put him to bed and will drink medicine.
Foreign mothers (and doctors) treat children's diseases much more calmly. If the child has a high fever, but he feels well, no one puts him in bed. The child can play, move freely around the house.
Of course, it all depends on the principles of treatment. For example, abroad a small child will not be prescribed expectorants; in Russia, on the contrary, they believe that coughs cannot be ignored. It is customary for us to care for the sick, to sympathize with them, especially if they are children.
3. Permissiveness
Russian mothers are very fond of their children, they are not trying to raise “robots” who will obey their creators in everything. Is this good or bad? Let each person answer this question for himself.
Russian children are allowed to watch adult programs, run through puddles, leave the table even when the rest of the family has not yet eaten.
Many foreigners find children from Russia very rude. They say that you can’t indulge your child in this way, otherwise the child may "sit on the neck."
In a number of European countries, children are brought up in severity, trying to treat them as adults. Moms from Russia, on the contrary, want to prolong their childhood.
2. Society
In Russia, great importance is given to society. As soon as the child first enters the playground, the mother begins to teach him how to behave.
"Give the boy a toy, he will play," "Do not offend the girl. Did she hit you? Nothing wrong". Approximately such phrases are heard by the child. He has been taught since childhood to be part of society, while abroad every child is a person, an individual.
Russian children know that you need to behave roughly, otherwise you can become the object of discussion and gossip. Do not forget that everything is good in moderation. No need to make an egoist out of a child. Parents should teach him to defend their interests and not pay attention to other people's opinions.
1. Attitude to the "adult child"
In Western countries, when a child becomes an adult, he must leave home. It is believed that parents gave the child everything they need and now he must start his own life.
In Russia, no one is surprised if the “child” is already over 40, and he still lives with his parents. According to statistics, Russian children leave their home at about 30 years old. Of course, everything is individual.
The point now is that parents from Russia will never tell their “adult child” that it is time for him to move out. They are ready to bear full responsibility for the education and even career of their child.