Transcript It Takes a Village: Childhood Across Cultures

It Takes a Village: Childhood Across Cultures
Threads of Childhood in the Western Tradition
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Sparta
Toughness/Loyalty
 Jews
Learning/Tradition
 Romans
Decline of Childhood
 Christians
Reaction to Romans
“New Birth”
St. Nicholas
Children’s Crusade
Child-rearing Manuals
Converging Childhoods in the New World
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European Protestants
Reformation
Martin Luther and his “Little Catechism”
Calvinism
Native Americans
Nuclear/Extended Family
Spirituality/Folk Culture
Luther Standing Bear
Africans
Similarities to Native American Childhood