对于任性的问题,不同的文化有着不同的理解。教育学博士、留美学者黄全愈在他的著作《家庭教育在美国》一书中就曾经谈过这个问题。黄先生的朋友阿莱希欧博士家的小女儿爱瑞卡两岁的时候曾在一次家庭聚会中大哭大闹,而她的父母却不加制止。她的父母认为,孩子这种被我们称之为“ Different cultures have different understandings of self-willed issues. Huang Quan Yu, Ph.D., a doctoral student in American studies, once addressed this issue in his book, Family Education in the United States. Her friend Aleshio’s younger daughter, Arica, was crying and crying at a family reunion at the age of two, while her parents did not stop there. Her parents think that this child is what we call "