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Message from: Anya F
About: parents
Fri, 24 Oct 97 12:57:29 EDT
yesterday in class we made
the observation that the french
students thought a good parent was someone who was involved
and guided their child (on average) as opposed to the american
students, who on average valued parents who gave their child
independence and respected them as an individual adult. from
my limited experience, american parents are in general over-
bearing and intrusive. friends of mine, and people i know who
have lived in france their whole lives in general are allowed
much more independence by their parents. parents in france
seem to have more of their own social lives, they travel
without their children more, and let their children have
much freedom american offspring don't have.
was the description of a good parent an ideal, which people
were striving for? or was is a description of their positive
experiences? it seems to me it is more the former than the
latter. how do the french students feel about their parents?
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