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23 Things American Parents Usually Do and the Rest of the World Doesn’t

Growing up in the United States definitely comes with a lot of fun, but we tend to assume that just because we were raised a certain way, everyone else had…

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6. We allow our kids to talk back

In the United States, we’ve gotten used to the idea that children often have temper tantrums, so we allow them to talk back and speak their minds every time they feel like it, even when they’re not being very nice.

We allow bad behavior from our children, but parents from other parts of the world would never accept it.

In Asia, for instance, Korean children are taught early on that their parents are the boss, and it’s not the other way around, so they respect their parents very much.

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