In her article, “Depth and Space in Sleep: Intimacy, Touch and the Body in Japanese Co-sleeping Rituals,” Diana Adis Tahhan delves into the social and cultural connotations of co-sleeping, or soine, through a series of teacher interviews and participant-observations conducted in a daycare centre in north-east Japan. The children of the daycare centre were divided into four classes according to age. Tahhan traces the ways in which sleep patterns vary from class to class, and thus from age group to age group. By examining the process through which soine becomes a manifestation of secure intimacy within the scope of Japanese daycare centre classes, Tahhan broadens and enhances conventional understanding of co-sleeping: Co-sleeping does not solely …show more content…
For the purposes of the article, Tahhan contextualizes co-sleeping, or soine, as a "meeting between the teachers and children in the daycare centre" (39). It is particularly important to clarify that soine is a relaxed, intimate meeting, one that transcends the physical interaction of separate entities. By first drawing upon French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty's “flesh” ontology, Tahhan illuminates the meaning of embodied experience in co-sleeping patterns (41). By participating in and through one another, humans instill substance and meaning within flesh (41). Although the distinct bodies of children and teacher act as the physical vehicles for co-sleeping, it is flesh and mutual, intrinsic mingling that endow strength to intimacy, connection, and security, all distinguishing characteristics of the soine experience (41). Reinforcing Merleau-Ponty’s theory of humans’ embodied nature, Japanese theorist Hiroshi Ichikawa’s concept of “mi” refers to the space that encompasses human body, mind, spirit, self, relationality and whole existence (41). Together, Merleau-Ponty’s concept of flesh and Ichikawa’s concept of mi provides a tangible method by which to approach the sensuous experience and space in
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Give a description of how the nursery should respect the children’s need for attachment and bonding and justify your ideas by referencing current theory. Pioneers such as Bowlby, Ainsworth, and Schaffer and Emerson and contemporary theorists such as Rutter should be
In different countries and cities, infant caretaking styles can differ widely due to varying cultures and values. For example, the study done by Morelli, Rogoff, Oppenheim and Goldsmith in 1992 revealed differences in the infant sleeping practices between Mayan parents and U.S. parents from Utah. While more Mayan parents preferred to let their infants sleep on their bed to develop a close mother-infant bond, more U.S. parents preferred to keep their infants on a separate bed and to let them sleep alone as soon as possible in order to allow their child to become independent (Morelli et al., 1992). The purpose of this study is to examine the caretaking practices of a current parent through an interview and to compare and contrast the parent’s
All parents have different opinions about allowing their children to sleep in their beds with them. Some will be surprised to find out that it is not only in certain cultures that parents and children sleep together at night in the same bedroom or even in the same bed, but it happens everywhere. Some families keep it a secret for fear other parents will frown on their habits, but it is truly a common practice. In fact, the National Sleep Foundation reports that about 24% of parents let their children sleep with them for at least some part of the night.
Newborns do not contribute much to society at large. In fact, they do not do much in general. It is impossible to know the details of what goes on in an infant’s mind. One of the things we do know about newborns is that sleep is crucial and they spend an average of 16-18 hours each day sleeping (Ward, 2015). This paper will examine the experiences of one mother’s decisions in regard to sleeping arrangements and the values, both cultural and personal, that support these arrangements. It will also compare her decisions to the decisions of U.S. and Mayan mothers discussed in the research article “Cultural Variation in Infants’ Sleeping Arrangements: Questions of Independence.” The mother who was interviewed for this paper is 54 years old and
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Also children in a day nursery might have a favourite toy or a comfort blanket they use to sleep with during night or just take it around with them as it makes them feel safe, this provides the children with security and within day nurseries children are able to take in comfort blankets or teddy’s in order to help them sleep at their routine times. When I was in a day nursery placement I seen this occur when a boy aged 14 months had a blanket he would always take into the setting with him and carry it around
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Sleeping while on duty hours can negatively affect that soldier, their battle buddies, and even their mission. It’s an act that can only do harm, whether that soldier be in an active warzone overseas, stationed at a base within the homeland, or even training. It takes discipline to stay awake when it is necessary to, and not being able to keep awake when necessary shows a lack of discipline and effort on that soldier’s part. As a result, that soldier ends up hurting themselves and everyone around them.
The movie ‘’BABIES’’ is about babies from San Francisco, Japan, Namibia, and Mongolia and It showed how they interact with people and things around them. It helps people see how the parents take care of their babies in different cultures and how they are similar in some ways. The documentary shows the four different cultural babies from right after birth until they can walk. Everyone has a different way of how to take care of their babies; people don’t have the same cultural background so people take care of their babies differently. The 2010 film Babies demonstrates example of cultural universals and norms while viewing the distinct cultural differences between the cultures of Namibia, Mongolia, Japan and the United States from the conflict
I attended preschool through kindergarten in a small private school. The two and three year olds actually napped, but the rest of us big kids just rested. We were big enough not to have to nap like the babies. If some of us were resting nicely then we were allowed to go upstairs to where the little ones were sleeping. If some of them weren’t asleep we would proceed to rub their backs until they fell asleep.
Pedagogical documentation was developed in the 1970 and 80’s by the teachers of infant centers and preschools of the municipality of Reggio Emilia in Italy which later spread in other parts of the world (Anne Wien, 2013). Pedagogical documentation is a kind of a record which gives complete information about children and their thought process. This record is presented in terms of the behaviours as captured in images, video, artifacts, written and audio records (Anne Wien, 2013). A collection of the documented material serves as a great tool for a combined thought when others get to share these experiences. It is not just a picture of an action but also a deeper understanding of what is going on in the minds of these children, the emotional battle going on in their minds and the learning experience they get from such moves and behaviours (Dahlberg, 2013).
...interact with their caregivers and through interaction not only their cognitive abilities are shaped by also their personality and behaviour in later stage of their life (Triandis & Suh, 2002). The essay is considering the background that social relation flourishes, namely interaction child – adult and peer relations. Through their early experiences with others, children develop their understanding of the world. By simple activities that are carried out on daily basis between children and caregivers, children are able to gain the meaning of new techniques and learning strategies, they expand their existing knowledge and experience new things. The interesting aspect is to elaborate on social interaction within different groups of children. Although the cognitive abilities may not fully develop in every child, social interaction encourages and prompts the progress.
Parenting, which is somewhat akin to teaching, should be regarded as one of the three cooperative arts. Thus conceived, it calls upon parents to assist their offspring in the process of growing up, doing so by observing carefully the steps the children themselves take in the process and doing what is necessary to facilitate their progress. Parenting departs from being a cooperative art, as teaching does also, when it tries to be the active and dominant factor in the process -- when parents or teachers think that what they do should be like the molding of passive, plastic matter.
Sleep is a very important factor in the human function. Our body and brain is able to reset itself and rejuvenate while we sleep. When we do not get the required amount of sleep, we start to feel lethargic and foggy minded, because our mind and body wasn’t able to replenish itself. Sleep is imperative that an insignificant rest deficiency or lack of sleep can affect our ability to remember things; decisions and can affect our temperament. Chronic sleep deficiency can get the body to feel agitated and it could lead to serious health problems such as, heart problems, stress, acne, and obesity.