Proximal and Distal Parenting

As I read this chapter, I continue to learn more about the the development of babies. You learn to understand that babies are so fragile and they need to be taken care of very carefully. Parents and caregivers actions can have big impact on the babies as they grow and in order to keep your baby in good health there is another ethnotheory that is embedeed in a particular culture to shape a parents baby, this ethnotheory is known as the Proximal and the Distal parenting. Proximal parenting is when a parent is physically close to a baby, often holding and touching the baby. Distal parenting involves pants keeping their distance from the child, providing toys, feeding by putting finger food within the babies reach ,and just talking face to face rather than having an intimate conversation with the baby. Ethnotheory underlines the values and practices of a cultural but is not apparent to the people in the culture (Berger 189).