Sociology

Raising Amish Children

Done By: Mustafa Rahmany

Class:TY B.B.A
 Raising Amish children

The case is Jacob a teenager who born and grow up in a Amish community.at the age of 14
he will finish schooling and be a full time worker at his family farm.
It's not all work and no play for the typical Amish child, but it is much different from that of a
non-Amish child's day. Every single person in an Amish family is considered a productive
member of the community, including the children. Depending on the age and gender of the
Amish child, certain duties and responsibilities are required of them from sunup to sundown.
In fact, everyone's day starts well before the sun even has a chance to rise.
The day begins for most Amish families around five o'clock in the morning,  
All Amish children are required to attend school from the first grade to the eighth grade.
Amish children do not attend public schools, but instead go to a one-room school house that
is located near their homes.

Amish schools also teach their children the things they'll need to know to succeed in their
Amish communities.

Amish children only attend school eight months out of the year. During the spring and
summer months, they are required to help on the farms with the harvest. Amish boys will
help their fathers in the fields,

Amish girls will help their mothers in the home when not in school. They learn how to cook
and clean for the family, as well as how to do the yard work and other chores that are
required around the house.

Questions 1:

what make Amish parents so sure that their children remain in their Amish
community?

Answer:

Meiding social practice are used by Amish which is rejecting assimilation and coexist with
the rest of society or other culture and also it is mentioned in the case that the way of life
Amish follow divided in to parts which is old order and new order.
The old order live with the simple life style and reject most aspects of modernization and
technology such as electricity ,automobiles. Radio,and TV.
They maintain for their child their own schools and tradition and do not want their children to
socialized into another norms or value of other culture from the time when their children born
So in this case they are so sure that their child will stay in the Amish community .
But exactly what I think it is not like that, the Amish parents really aren't so sure their
children will stay. Ultimately they will follow the older order or new order in the community,
it's their desire that all their children would join church, but they should understand that it
has to be each child individual decision. And also if the Parents of children who fail to join
church do not appear to carry a stigma in the community.

Question 2:
If you live in an Amish community ,how would you differs from the way it now ?in your
opinion ,what are the advantages and disadvantages would that life style have?
Answer:
Well I have grown up in a Amish family or community their will be a very big difference
from the way which I am now .

 Less knowledge only about the community not any other community
 Away from ease of technology
 Computer
 Mobile
 Internet
 Automobile
 Radio
 TV….etc
 Away from Global development
 Dependent to a particular community
 Same life style and standard of living
 Firm based work
 genetic disorders like Dwarfism….etc
and coming to the Advantages and disadvantage of Amish life style.
Advantage:

 The emphasis on the solidarity of the extended family unit

 The emphasis on being hospitable to strangers, helping those in need, whether Amish
or “English” (anyone who’s not Amish is “English,” no matter what language or
culture he/she represents)
 Building your own houses, growing your own food, sewing your own clothes
 Teaching of experiences like self-reliance, self-preservation, and gave me the ability
to relate to non-American familial cultures much better than I might otherwise.

Disadvantages:

 Rudimentary education
 Physical and verbal abuse in the name of discipline
 Women (and children) have no rights
 Religion–and all its associated fear and brainwashing–as a means of control (and an
extremely effective means at that)
 The rape, incest and other sexual abuse that run rampant in the community
 Animal abuse