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"Parents in the US and UK are advised to have their babies sleep in the same room as them for at least the first six months, with many viewing this as a brief stopover on their way to a dedicated nursery. Encouraging early independence aligns with a typical Western cultural focus on individualism. For that reason, bedsharing can seem to some like giving in to your child, and encouraging them to stay dependent on their parents. But parents with a more collectivist mindset, like Debmita Dutta, a doctor and parenting consultant in Bangalore, usually don't see it that way. 'You give them some self-confidence and some independence, they will separate from you on their own,' she says. 'They will not stick to you forever.'"
Source: Oakes, K. (2021, February 23). Is the Western way of raising kids weird? BBC.
Develop a better understanding of the relationship between self and culture as you analyse the concept of the self-construal as being independent or interdependent in the context of childrearing.