Are younger moms - in our culture I’d say the girls who are married at 22 or earlier - without going to college or some cases no education - are they just not able to teach their kids as much as women who are minimum college graduates (bachelors) ?
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Depends. At times even highly educated women don't have time/inclination for their kids or are too preoccupied with their work commitments that their kids suffer. So its not really how educated or not you are but how much importance you put on bringing up your kids as well rounded people.
But having said that yes i do feel educated parents would tend to be better inclined to well educate their kids.
That's generalisation. I know professional school graduates and postgraduates who are awful humans heck parents while I see 100% illiterate women who collect garbage in streets being the most wonderful and respectful persons and one of the wisest mothers. So your degree doesn't dictate how you're going to treat fellow beings and your kids imo
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Depends. At times even highly educated women don't have time/inclination for their kids or are too preoccupied with their work commitments that their kids suffer. *So its not really how educated or not you are but how much importance you put on bringing up your kids as well rounded people. *
But having said that yes i do feel educated parents would tend to be better inclined to well educate their kids.
I agree with the bolded part.....my sister married at 18, had my niece at 19.....my niece graduated high school with an IB diploma, graduated college from a prestigious private university with honors (and a year early) and is now well on her way doing her masters degree....my husband's niece and nephew..both graduated with honors from top notch uni's...one is in medical school, the other about to start after scoring extremely high on her MCAT, their mother can barely string a sentence together in english or urdu. I think she finished 10th grade in pakistan and that's it.
I don't think educated parents guarantee educated children. Or polite children. Or decent children.
Like the saying goes, "money can't buy you class"...I also believe a 4 year degree (or more) doesn't guarantee decency, morals or the ability to raise smart kids
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If college education hasn't taught a mother any manners,empathy, forgiving, class, morality chances are she won't be teaching her kids any manners, empathy, forgiving, class, morality. Most importantly college education doesn't guarantee that you will have humility, ability to respect others. There are good and bad mothers !!! College or no college doesn't make you a good or bad mother.
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They don't teach parenthood in college.
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I don't think so.
I have recently met a few people who are post graduate degree holders and cannot be bothered with their kids.
One of them was so "broad" minded she didn't think there was anything wrong with partying until the wee hours of the morning with random people while her husband worked full, time, hired a nanny to take care of their two kids in her absence and took care of them when he came home. She just wasn't interested. Highly educated, semi-attractive, etc.
In the past few years, I've met some really "hands on" moms who don't leave anything out of their parenting. Some of them highly educated, some of them are not but you could never tell because at the end of the day PCG...a mom is a mom. The uterus doesn't change once you graduate or earn a degree. Remember that.
Education might refine you a little bit (not always), make you more marketable career wise, able to hold conversations on a variety of topics and teach you bigger words.
But it doesn't teach you the skills you need to parent. Those come from within you.
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merely taking classes at a college in a degree program teaches you nothing about life. but if you make good use of the whole experience…and grow up and change and adapt…then college can teach you everything
so, different for everyone. all about personal effort
use khan academy for kids 
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Are younger moms - in our culture I'd say the girls who are married at 22 or earlier - without going to college or some cases no education - are they just not able to teach their kids as much as women who are minimum college graduates (bachelors) ?
No, you can't make that assumption. Some of the worst people I've seen at teaching (and that's specifically teaching, not having knowledge of the subject matter) are people with degrees in their field. So having a degree doesn't guarantee anything in terms of being able to teach.
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My dada and dadi were both illiterate and poor.
My dad is a surgeon in the UK and his brothers are bankers, lawyers and engineers and some of most well rounded amazing inspiring people I have ever met.
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Age and the title on your degree has nothing to do with how well a parent you will be.
My mum got married at 19, pretty normal age back then and doesn't have a university degree. Soon enough I will have 4 of them. No kids yet,but I can already tell you I wont be anywhere near my mums (or most of the women of her generations) league and I'm not saying this because she is my mother.
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I know A LOT of people who have not managed to get their degree but have gone on to raise children who they have put through university and are now working decently paid graduate jobs. I think moms who didn't have the chance to go ahead and get their degrees for whatever reasons tend to push their kids more. This is mainily because they want to give their children a better/easier life than they perhaps had. My mum went to college but didn't go to uni, and she is soooooo supportive of us going ahead and getting ours. Also, despite her not having a degree, I think she managed to raise some well mannered and level headed children.
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Maternal education is not the only deciding factor, but it certainly is a factor, the bar out there is being raised and we are entering an era of super humans, as someone had pointed out well rounded individuals and that is going to be the key...India and China are producing more Doctors and Engineers than you would care to know, softer skills are more in demand than hard skills, and not having a personality is almost a crime,
We cant leave parenting to chance, there are resources out there to improve parenting skills, parents need to learn how a brain develops, what factors are involved in behavioral and intellectual development, parenting styles out there are authoritarian, authoritative, permissive and uninvolved..I take bits from every style..My measure of success is happiness and at a very early stages I decided to develop their capacity to be happy...one of my goal is to hear laughter every day..you can't truly be happy without physical development and I made sure the kids fitness level is high. Healthy bodies have healthy brains
According to the National Institutes of Health, the education level of a parent is a significant predictor of a child's educational achievements and behavioral outcomes. Parents who are educated raise children to have healthy self-perceptions when it comes to their academic abilities, engage them in intellectual activities that help them develop a healthy attitude about learning and generally have children with fewer behavioral problems that may hinder their learning experiences.
Also there are many men like me involved in active parenting...so let us not forget them..
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Lovely post.
Probably my most favorite post on gs. This is our world.
Maternal education is not the only deciding factor, but it certainly is a factor, the bar out there is being raised and we are entering an era of super humans, as someone had pointed out well rounded individuals and that is going to be the key...India and China are producing more Doctors and Engineers than you would care to know, softer skills are more in demand than hard skills, and not having a personality is almost a crime,
We cant leave parenting to chance, there are resources out there to improve parenting skills, parents need to learn how a brain develops, what factors are involved in behavioral and intellectual development, parenting styles out there are authoritarian, authoritative, permissive and uninvolved..I take bits from every style..My measure of success is happiness and at a very early stages I decided to develop their capacity to be happy...one of my goal is to hear laughter every day..you can't truly be happy without physical development and I made sure the kids fitness level is high. Healthy bodies have healthy brains
According to the National Institutes of Health, the education level of a parent is a significant predictor of a child's educational achievements and behavioral outcomes. Parents who are educated raise children to have healthy self-perceptions when it comes to their academic abilities, engage them in intellectual activities that help them develop a healthy attitude about learning and generally have children with fewer behavioral problems that may hinder their learning experiences. Also there are many men like me involved in active parenting...so let us not forget them..
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When it comes to choose between younger moms and otherwise, I would give weightage to.the younger ones. For their verve and energy. Parenting is not a science, its an instinct and a passion. In my personal opinion young mums can do.much better than mundanely established but worn out mums. I mean, whats tge benefit really, if ou.have conquered half of the world with your shining academic record nd glittering career when.you cant sit and play with your babies, cant mimic.them.and feast yourself upon their erupting laughter. Yea older mummies.can.do.tht too, but young ones will beat.them.to it.
Underlined the argumentative part already, not.in a mod to involve in any futile zavardasti ki argument please.
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My mum only did her 10th, and got married at 16. She was determined to make us siblings get the best grades, and go to uni. I'm currently studying for mine at one of the top unis in England and so will my younger siblings.
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As sadia18 said earlier, people who didn't have the opportunity to complete higher education often encourage their children more and push them to do well and get a degree so that they have a better life than they did. Such people often push their children more than people who have an education. I think a good example would be my (future) fil. He only completed high school and married my mil when they were both 18. He had to start at the very bottom (or as he calls it "in the gutter") when he first moved the UK but has always pushed my fiance and his siblings to do well in their studies. He managed to start a couple of businesses and is rather well off now but has always pushed his children towards higher education so that they don't struggle as much as he did.
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My mother didn't have a university degree, she secured a respectful job, and was a working woman so I didn't have the privilege of having her at home either. I attended a very good university, stayed on track and finished my graduate coursework by 23, and all of it was due to my mom's guidance, her lack of education definitely didn't hinder me.
It doesn't matter if the mother is young or old or what kind of a degree she may or may not have is the same as long as she is willing to sit down, relearn things that she may have forgotten for the sake of helping her child learn about new things and subjects. I have seen plenty of women who didn't have degrees but they have successful children because they sat down, some even tutored their own kids and would do math problems first just to understand it better. It is about what you are willing to do and how far you are willing to go to teach your children the importance of education and a love for learning. Personally, my girls are young but I am constantly googling ways to broaden their horizon and teaching them concepts that are academically challenging as well as creatively. I plan on being very active once they start school and I plan on revising stuff that they may have learned in school and introduce things they may not have learned. I just want them to love love love learning no matter what it is.
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^you sound like a strict Ammi.