A new research finding on carrying babies has made some interesting revelations. As per this study by a Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist babies carried upright by their parents becomes more self-assured and poised kids in comparison to those who are just made to sit in prams.
"We are struck by how emotionally secure, self-confident, curious and autonomous the members of those small-scale societies are, not only as adults but already as children," Jared Diamond writes in his new book "The World Until Yesterday".
Diamond who have spent 50 years working with traditional societies in New Guinea, says that basic parenting methods which have been discarded by the West but are being followed in more traditional societies, could benefit children.
"That's surely the result of how they are raised as children. I think that we can foster those admirable qualities in our own children, by emulating some hunter-gatherer child-rearing practices," the Telegraph has reported him saying.
Local inhabitants of the African rain-forest, for example, use a variety of behaviors which evolved over hundreds of thousands of years but which have been forgotten or not in use in the modern world, Diamond says.
Diamond, a professor by profession says: "It would be impossible, illegal, or immoral to carry out rigorous controlled experiments on Western children, in order to test outcomes of different child-rearing methods."
"But a huge variety of different methods has in effect already been tested by natural experiments: different societies have been raising their children differently for a long time, and we can see the results," he says.
--with inputs from ANI
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