It can be a difficult period to research as a lot of important figures of the time we’re sent to the shadow realm by Stalin. I don’t read much pure documentative non fiction, but General Georgy Zhukov wrote an autobiography that was never censored and he fought in the revolution on the side of the Bolsheviks. I’m not far into it, but I generally prefer reading biographies.
The link is to a book that talks about parenting in different cultures. The natives believe in partible paternity, and thus several males support each child.
Oh, that! Thank you for explaining! I was a bit curious about my country being mentioned and I didn't understand at first.
You're from Paraguay? Sweet! What's it like there?
Yeah, I'm from Paraguay, I thought for a minute that you were from here too! Here is hot, hot all the time, older people are nice, younger people not so much, it's nice but you have to get used to your government constantly fucking up badly but we take it in stride, other people would probably burn the country down already.
Do you think it was always looked down on, or only recently looked down on as a result of European/Western influence?
I think it's only recently, although it wasn't as common as it is today when I was a child. Even in my family, we raise my brother's children as if they were our own, me, my dad, and my other two brothers, we all take care of him since he is away.
That's pretty interesting. I've always liked the saying, "It takes a village to raise a child." If we weren't in the middle of a pandemic, I would be having my boyfriends and other friends over to watch my kid, but since he's not old enough to get vaccinated against Covid yet, it's just me, his dad, and sometimes my parents because they live immediately next door and we trust them enough to risk physical contact with them.
I see, yeah, Covid is a sucker, we were lucky that we all live in the same house so it's only me who risks going to the supermarket or other places. My father and one of my brothers work in their workshop next to our house so we are all always at home to raise the kids and look that they don't watch stupid things on youtube. Their dad (my other brother, we are 4 brothers, all males) just recently came back home after being in jail for 5 years (for a crime he didn't commit) so he can take care of them now, but I did the raising during all that time. I think I did a pretty good job hehe.
Awesome! By the way, I'm looking for more ideas on how to entertain my one-year old if you have any good ones. He loves going outside, and he hands me my shoes whenever he wants to go outside. We have a pretty good back yard with fruit trees and stuff, so there's fun stuff out there, but we've also got thorny things and poisonous things, so I need to constantly supervise him outside until we're sure he understands what he can and can't eat out there.
Yeah, they are pretty curious at this age, I don't think there is a specific way to entertain a one-year-old but I did it with toys. You have to look for that kind of toys that are age-specific that would not hurt him with pointy bits, like cars for example. My mom used to put those "daddy finger" videos on youtube for them to watch but I don't like those, although that's only my personal opinion because I hate them haha.
Indeed, we don't give him much screen time. I generally put on a music video like this with words on the screen so that will also hopefully get him into reading. We read lots of real books, too. When he's drinking my milk, he likes to hand me books, so I read whatever he hands me, and then we're multitasking!
Hmmm, that's certainly very interesting.