Ben's Children In Cameroon

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where children care for children and they learn social skills from their siblings (Lamb, Sternberg, Hwang, & Broberg, 1992). Ben’s children living in the wilderness put them in a unique position to only understand their own social behaviors and cues among each other.
Another common practice in Cameroon is that at an age as young as three years old children start to assume domestic chores, taking care of the animals and fetching fire wood (Lamb, Sternberg, Hwang, & Broberg, 1992). Ben starts grooming and training his children at a young age. There is a scene in the movie where one of the youngest children Nai Cash who looks to be the age of 5 or 6 is caught with the boning knife and is deboning an animal inside a tree house with an array collection

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