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The first parenting difference is linguistic: rich parents expose children to more vocabulary and longer explanations, while poor parents use short commands.
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The first parenting difference is linguistic: rich parents expose children to more vocabulary and longer explanations, while poor parents use short commands.
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The second parenting difference is authority style: rich parents explain mistakes and treat the child as respected, while poor parents use threats and commands that teach fear of adults.
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The third parenting difference is stability: rich parents can keep promises because they have money; poor parents live with volatility and therefore teach a less trustful worldview.
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He argues that school reforms based on rich-parenting traits are more effective than self-control curricula but still fail because children's worldview is already formed, and parent behavior itself is hard to change.
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He argues that poor parents command children because their children need to know how to take orders from police, bosses, and family networks.
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He argues that rich parents respect and debate with children because the rich child's future game is negotiation with peers and institutions.
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For poor families, Jiang says command parenting can be an optimal local strategy because friends and relatives may punish or stigmatize parent-child friendship, communication, and promise-keeping as deviant.
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Jiang says his own parenting in China emphasizes freedom, communication, family democracy, and stories rather than scheduled achievement activities, and that this makes his family socially abnormal in that environment.
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"...Okay? So what's the difference? Okay. So now let's look at parenting strategies between rich and poor. Okay? So there are lots of differences,..."
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"High vocabulary, low vocabulary. When rich parents speak to the kids, rich parents will use higher vocabulary, longer sentences. Poor parents will just be..."
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"Okay? Don't do that. Pretty simple. Okay? But as you can understand, the rich kid will understand that the world is safe and that..."
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"...we can't go anymore. Okay? And now, because of these different parenting styles, we understand why rich kids behave different from poor kids. Right?..."
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"What is the marshmallow test? Marshmallow test is not a test of self -control. It's a test of your trust. Trust in others, right?..."
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"...resilience, and self -reflection, we should construct our schools around better parenting skills. Okay? Which means that, hey, let's construct schools where kids are..."
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"But if you're a rich person, the way that you get along with others, the way that you maximize your outcome is by negotiating..."
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"They're playing a different game from poor to rich. Poor kids. Okay? So let's go back and look at parents. Okay? So poor parents..."
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"...So if your family members or your friends, if they are parenting their child in this manner, you're also going to copy them. Okay?..."
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"...God, you are an enlightened parent who's read a lot of parenting books and great for you. They're going to think there's something wrong..."
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"...wife and I, we spend a lot of time talking about parenting. I've read a lot of books about parenting."
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"...this way, your child will fit into China better. Okay? So parenting, the goal, the incentive is not for your child to succeed. The..."
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