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control and striving for independence

e Aka Pygmies of Africa, where children are hold by a caretaker. This is  for much of the day, this developmental stage is not as evident (Hewlett, 1992). Among the Zinacantecans in Mexico, infants do not go through this transition of obstinacy. Rather than asserting control and striving for independence, Zincantecan 2-year-olds change their status from mother’s baby to a member of the courtyard children’s group (Edwards, 1994; Rogoff, 2003). Without the interactions with their parents that try to inculcate a sense of individualism and independence, these early and rather clumsy efforts to exert autonomy and control by young toddlers are rarely seen. }88 CHAPTER 5 � D EVELOPMENT AND SOCIALI ZAT ION Similarly, Japanese toddlers have been shown to make fewer demands on their parents than their American counterparts and are less likely to assert their disobedience (Caudill & Schooler, 1973). Those occasions when Japanese toddlers do act unruly.

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as signs of blossoming individuality but rather as indicators of their immaturity (Lebra, 1994). The developmental goal embraced by Japanese parents is much less a desire to see their children learn how to individuate and assert themselves than it is for them to learn how to accommodate to others and to become part of a harmonious social group (Rothbaum, Pott, Azuma, Miyake, & Weisz, 2000).  On Tuesday, April 20, 1999, two teenage students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, walked. This is  into Columbine High School in Jefferson County. This Colorado, carrying heavy artillery with the express purpose of killing their classmates. At the end of their horrific rampage, Harris and Klebold committed suicide, but not. THIS  before killing 12 fellow students and a teacher and wounding 24 others. It was one of the deadliest school shootings the world has ever witnessed