How are turkish children raised?

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do you spoil them? do you use spanking as discipline? are they ignored by adults? do parents make them study too much? who is more important for a child, the mother or the father? so turkish moms stay at home or work too? do men in turkey help the women with house chores when she works?

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i think yes T眉rk children are spoiled and this spoiling thing is being showed as love by the parents but it is not.when a child makes a something really bad the parents say ''ohhh it is just a child'' but those idiots are supposed to be raise and control their own kids but no they just know to say ''well done honey''

In my family i dont care about my father but my mom is sooo important for me.we never had strict rules in our house but about studying yes (not includes my parents) they force them so much cos education system sucks i have a cousin who is 21 year old and still trying to pass the university exam and her mother says she will try every year until she comes the age of 35 and doesnt allow her to work.she continues taking courses for uni exams.and in T眉rkiye from the primary school kids go to DERSHANE after schools or/and at weekends.Dershane is a place like school but you just take courses to develope your speed on solving (such as math,science,T眉rk莽e) problems.
T眉rkiye is changing and in modern places it is hard to find the old tradition.In our house we dont like my father cooks so we tell our mom to stop him.he just makes salads and puts his finger when mom makes a desert.Im21 years old girl and i never wash the dishes.i have my own glass and spoon i just wash these.when mom is away usually my father and elder brother washes and i make my own meal or i just go outside to buy a d枚ner or kebap.I usually leave the house early for job or uni so sometimes mom tidies up my room but im not ok about this cos i dont like her presence in my room.
I think T眉rk men are bad husbands at sharing responsibilities so my advise is stay away:))ohhhhh am i wrong??????
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Turkish children are raised happily.Parents care their children very much.Mother is mother,father is father.It isnt important mom is working or not.We Turks always keep our families.Our fathers are a bit hard.But they have very soft hearth and they are always support,help their wives,childrens.They make us study but at the same time they make us feel they are always with us.
everyones different but I tell you about my parents parenting....I was never spoilt, yes was ignored some ways but is not such a bad thing(I am a parent so know you should ignore your child sometimes), my parents never made me study, to me my mum&dad were equally important,my mum stayed home but lately mums do work too, yes Turkish men are very helpful usually well my dad was...
hope that helps greetings from T眉rkiye......
We spoil them:) We love them.At night when they cry we don't let them in their bedrooms until stop crying like some countries do.
Both of the parents are equally important i can not even make a separation. Turkish moms do both. If they want to stay at home they stay at home. If they want to continue working they work. Actually new generation prefer working. All my Turkish friends who have kids turned back to work.
We love our families. even if we grow old for our families we are always small children. There is nothing like "ok now you are 18 go find youself another house" It is our house, we stay as much as we want.
My father and my mother share the chores. Sometimes one cooks, the other one sets the table. My father is great cook.
In Turkey generally in the cities there are always some cleaning women coming to clean the houses so specially working women have those kinds of women at home.
My parents never spanked me, neither i saw someone spanking their children where i grew up.
There is a lot of spoiling and love and a lot of respect
1. well, there are lots of spoiled kids out there, if the family can afford their children to be spoiled, they really make an effort toward it :) was just kidding, the majority of parents are, i believe, conscious about how to raise their children so they act really fair, but still, i know heaps and heaps of spoiled kids out there thus it's both yes and no.

2. if the families recognise some moral values such as the children's right to grow up in a healthy environment where he/she can learn how to be ready for their life ahead, NO WAY modern turkish families spank their children. so it's just like anywhere else in the prosperous world, if there isn't an emotionally-troubled mother in deep depression or a drunk dad it's impossible. i'm not sure but in some not-really-civilized rural areas unlike many parts of anatolia (i'm proud to say that anatolian people have strong ethic values to hold on) they may have spanking, however, i've never heard anyone (whom i know) spanking their children, if i meet one in the future, i'll be deeply shocked and frustrated, and will certainly exchange some harsh words with him/her!

3. we have this exam at the end of highschool which indicates which universities you'll be able to go according to your results and it's really important to us, you know, therefore people study for it without sleeping, in such extreme conditions but usually those students study for their future, not because their parents oblige them to study. on the contrary, there is a terrible misconception among turkish families like "if you cannot enter a university, you are nothing then", so some unfortunately are making their sons/daughters study too much. that's for quite a small number of families, so no need to worry about that!

4. some turkish moms stay at home but that's because they are uneducated, have an education level of like primary school or they just prefer to sometimes. however, some are very ambitious about working and successful. hope i won't be bragging but i'm a teenager and have a little brother who is 7, and our mother is a professor at turkey's top medicine university, she also teaches there, goes each year all over europe to attend conferences and she actually was once a chairwoman in a session at one of the biggest radiology conferences of europe in vienna, she's an intriguing person in fact both raising children and building up her career. we're not a nation that prohibits women from working quite the opposite, lately, public awareness is wanted to be raised about this issue so that women are encouraged to work. most of the moms around me are also working like my mother, indeed, it's the same in rural areas, men go to trade stuff, women go to field to harvest. turkish people are exceptionally hardworking and intelligent, therefore we all work no matter what our gender is :) (the recent female generation prefers to go thorugh the education system and work)

5. confession: we, turkish men, are not very good at doing house chores (although some are)! :) still we try to be helpful to our women. however, some even don't do that, they think it's girly and put on that awful mask of a macho, it's a popular stereotype for turkish fathers in tv series. there are some chores that are, like, owned (!) by men, like when you have a barbeque party, you cannot see any women at the direction of the bbq, it's always the men handling the bbq stuff. to sum up, we praise the god for creating our women so skillful :) btw, when women work, also men do work around that time, so doing house chores are postponed or if the families can afford it they get their flats/houses/whatever they live in cleaned, like once a week by a cleaner.

p.s. sorry for my s hitty grammar, i went to another room, get distracted, etc. so it may not be very to the point and may be lacking of essential grammatical values :)

oops, forgot to answer a question of yours, mothers & fathers are equally important to turkish children since they are caring, reassuring and strong figures of authority and fundamental parts ,the firm "groundings", of a family.
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