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Differences in How Polish People Raise a Child and How Americans Raise a Child [149]
These are just a few of the things that I do not necessarily subscribe to and I am wondering if anyone had any insight into the differences between how Polish people raise children compared to the way Americans do.
That's one trigger that caused my divorce.
I was always with the baby, always holding, nursing, sleeping with the baby and husband got very jealous. He was American and brought up differently than I was. Even though I was born in the US, I grew up in Poland. Then when the other baby was born he went berserk and neutered himself without telling me so I won't have any more children. Just to punish me. Because I paid more attention to the baby than to him.
Many new fathers go through this stage, that they are not the "king" anymore and feel like they are ignored. It's immature behaviour and some men cannot understand what a mother goes through emotionally and physically. A child is the biggest event in a woman's life, she has waited for so long for it to be born, has been with the child for those 9 months and to her that is the most precious thing in her life.
Also in America they don't want children drinking from a bottle after the age 1. In Europe it's normal for 4-5 year olds to still drink from a bottle, and what's wrong with that? As long as they get their milk it doesn't matter where they get it from.
I don't like the American way to raise children, they are so backwards on their raising profiles. Pacifiers are a no-no after 1 year of age. In Europe 5 year olds still have pacifiers, so what? In the US when parents go to work, the babysitter raises your child. Americans are more impersonal when raising their children, while in Poland there is more closeness to a child, which is hard to understand for Americans.
