Ep. 30: How do we navigate our parenting decisions within our cultural framework?

From the moment a family is expecting their first child, decisions are made about how that relationship is going to work, decisions that don't always match reality. The addition of a new person to the family - and a rather helpless one at that - changes everything. Here we have a baby who needs and expects certain things. Food. Warmth. Care. We also have parents who often live in cultures that tell them what to expect from their baby. And as I talked about last week with Dr. Helen Ball, often the messages parents get are incongruent with their realities. This week the discussion continues with Dr. Cecilia Tomori who has spent a career doing in-depth, ethnographic work on how families navigate and negotiate the tensions that affect parenting decisions, particularly from a moral framework of how we make the decisions we do. From colonialism to convenience, you may be surprised at all the ways parenting decisions are influenced.

Dr. Cecilia Tomori: nursing.jhu.edu/faculty_research/faculty/facul… and ceciliatomori.com
Twitter: twitter.com/DrTomori

Books by Dr. Tomori:
Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches: routledge.com/Breastfeeding-New-Anthropologica…
Nighttime Breastfeeding: berghahnbooks.com/title/tomorinighttime

Relevant Articles:
dro.dur.ac.uk/28335
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/24694452.2018.…
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S027…