Concerted cultivation

are known to affect how a child is raised, and determining a superior child rearing method is complex, with many pros and cons associated with each method. There are two primary ways to raise children: concerted cultivation and accomplishment of natural growth (Lareau, 2011). Concerted cultivation is the type of child rearing seen mostly in middle-class families while accomplishment of natural growth is primarily seen in working-class, poor families; therefore,…

class families choose to utilize. Throughout her study, Lareau discusses concerted cultivation in middle class families, where parents play an active role in their children’s development. Lareau points out that in poor families, natural growth is the philosophy that parents use, where children have more freedoms and spend most of their time free of adult…

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two different methods of raising children. The first, “concerted cultivation,” was more…

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Rowling was the child of two successful and educated individuals, she possessed the advantage of concerted cultivation, which allowed her to get her books published for the world to read. In the book Outliers, Gladwell describes concerted cultivation as a middle class “parenting style” that attempts to “actively ‘foster and assess a child’s talents, opinions and skills.’” (104). This parenting style teaches kids the importance…

Annette Lareau, in her book “Unequal Childhoods”, explains her belief that parents from different social classes raise their children in different ways. She does this through her observations and studies with select families from upper middle class to the poor lower class. She states that the working and lower class families use a method that she refers to as “accomplishment of natural growth”. From my experience, Annette Lareau’s thesis was accurate as I have grown up in a working class family…

“naturalistic” observations of twelve ethnically diverse families from two schools (urban “cream puff” Lower Richmond School and suburban Swan School), the author shows how teachers and institutions support concerted cultivation which is a typical practice in the middle-class families. Concerted cultivation is defined as “development of the child through organized activities, development of vocabulary through reasoning and reading, and active parent involvement in schooling” (p. 24). For…

children with sports to improve their skill and to teach them to be better than their parents at a comparable age (pg. 241). Annette explains child rearing use mainly through concerted cultivation and natural growth. She also takes a sociological perspective of families using concerted cultivation or natural growth. Concerted cultivation parents usually value their children to take responsibility, have network connections, and expect entitlement. Meanwhile, natural growth parents value home…