An ability that makes children able to know what they need and what they have to do in order to succeed it. Parents, when children do mistakes, should focus not in the child's shortfalls in relation with the other kids, but at his effort. They should encourage the child to repeat the effort and by the repetition the child will understand the mistake (Redbook, 1999).
In our century, people have placed a strong value on individualism, competition, independence, self-development, and self-satisfaction. More and more parents are trying to emphasize in the children's autonomy ignoring other values. However, there is a comparison in what values minorities children learn. Since minority families are extended families, they value highly relationships among relatives and they develop high levels of interaction and closeness (Journal of Marriage and the Family, 2000). Ethnic minority children in comparison with white children are more socialized and they value more cooperation, sharing, mutuality, obligation and mutual dependence (Journal of Marriage and the Family).
For example in African American families mutuality, sharing and equivalence are more common than in any other families. The parents are more democratic in child rearing and they emphasize values such as courage, independence, and self-confidence in both boys and girls. In Mexican American families children become more elaborate as they exhibit their love to the parents. That loyalty to the family is displayed through social events, communication, and family celebrations. In contrast, with the white and the African American children, the Mexican American are taught to value cooperation, family unity, togetherness, and individual achievement (Journal of the Marriage and the Family).
Asian American children have many differences in they way they think and behave since the values that they are taught are not the same ones with the African or the Mexican American.