To begin with, in the Chinese tradition the family was the central nucleus, shaping social and collective life. It offered its members great protection, but demanded in return absolute submission to the head of the family. Since 1982, when family law was reformed, pregnancy was thoroughly controlled from a medical point of view. The ultrasounds are carried out but the sex is not revealed to the parents, to avoid abortions of female fetuses. During pregnancy, especially in rural areas, women should not use needles, knives, or scissors, because they are considered to threaten the physical integrity of the fetus. She is used to covering the belly with a red cloth from the first months, similar to a small apron, to prevent the fetus from looking outside and seeing unpleasant things, as well as curiosity leading her to want to anticipate the birth. The apron is passed from mothers to daughters, or between relatives and friends.

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As much as we think we are informed about parenthood, the way we raise our offspring is very atavistic. Nobody is surprised that parenting varies in each culture, but it is curious to what extent it differs in countries that, in social and economic terms, are very similar. Every society has beliefs about the correct way to educate children that make up what are called parental ethnotheories. This set of beliefs, which are transmitted from parents to children, are much more powerful than we think. As much as we think we are original, we are educating our children following a social conviction.

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We are looking at parenting practices this month depending on the country, we must bear in mind that we are going to generalize a bit due to the variety of subcultures that each region, each city and each population has. We cannot provide such a specific spectrum in front of a culture but we can comment on some general guidelines so that we keep in mind. Practices and beliefs vary from place to place and from culture to culture. These variations are linked to geographical, economic, social and cultural differences. Recognizing these differences implies adjusting the programs to local conditions.

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Being a parent is not, in itself, an easy task, and the environment and certain circumstances only make the experience more difficult. A study analyzes which are the factors that most stress families in the first year of the baby’s life and points out those that would make life easier for them.

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We are going to talk a little about the socio-cultural patterns of boys and girls, but in order to understand you, we must first ask ourselves what a socio-cultural pattern is, these are norms that are established in a region, city, or country according to customs. of a group of people and they change according to the advances, modifications and precisely those customs that are becoming common somewhere. These cultural patterns have to be established according to each person, since by the fact that you belong to a region you would not necessarily have to follow everything that the common people carry in their customs but rather the ones that you want to adopt if you have other good that you like from other regions or even countries, without imposing your ideas and without breaking with what is established that is «normal» for people.

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The family has fulfilled significant functions in different cultural contexts over time and with specific characteristics according to the demands of the environment. In recent decades there have been significant changes in its structure, its size, the relationships between its members and its links with other institutions and groups. One of the most marked transformations is the growing plurality of family types and the increasingly evident variety of their forms of organization, which has as a consequence that the concept of family itself has become increasingly complex. This diversification has intensified the debate and controversy about what the family is and what it should be, as well as about the psychological and social processes that develop in the family environment, among which the raising of children stands out.

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Already a few decades ago we have seen how ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) have begun to make their way in an accelerated way in humanity, well, with the Covid-19 pandemic it became a fundamental tool and in On many occasions, almost exclusively, due to the difficulty of attendance, thus becoming an agent of social change in the educational process, providing better and greater opportunities for humanity. However, it is important to highlight that a large part of the population does not has access to these and therefore the learning possibilities that they offer in many communities are limited, but today we want to highlight the importance of this tool in children’s learning processes and especially in the important use it has had with children who are included.

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This is a complex issue because the ideal of every society is to provide the population with disabilities all the conditions so that they can perform equitably within society and have an adequate life project.

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One of the difficulties that arise with children who have different disorders is management both at home and at school, for this to be an adequate management of protection, respect and opportunities, collaborative work is important, permanent accompaniment, dialogue, understanding, it is necessary that the inclusion is made in such a way that the child appears calm, safe and equitable in their spaces. Well, the dictionary of the Royal Academy of Language (Spanish, 2021) indicates that inclusion comes from the Latin inclusio, and defines it as the action and effect of including. Connection or friendship of someone with another person.

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It is the result of a permanent interaction between genetic information and environmental factors.

Genes are involved in all stages of development: formation of the neuronal tube, destruction of neurons, migration, differentiation, neuron-glia interactions. (J. Mancini, 2015).

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