7065 ISSN 2286-4822 www.euacademic.org EUROPEAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH Vol. III, Issue 6/ September 2015 Impact Factor: 3.4546 (UIF) DRJI Value: 5.9 (B+) Child Rearing Practices in Punjab IQRA REHMAN ANWAAR MOHYUDDIN 1 Department of Anthropology Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad Pakistan Abstract: In this research paper entitled “child rearing practices in Punjab” an attempt has been made to find out and discuss different child rearing practices, comparing them with our own society and with other. That’s how infants are taken cared? What type of swaddling they do? Cradling? And other things. After infancy entering into early childhood how the child is learning the culture and the practices. Learning of value and the effect of the environment is also important. Different authors have given theories of personality development. And many anthropologists did fieldwork and tried to find the relationship between the child rearing practices and individual personality development. The personality building is one of the important part of life and it starts when a person is born. The different child rearing practices actually help in the personality building of the child. Every culture has its own child rearing practices and when we talk about the Punjabi culture, it is different from the other cultures. There are different methods of child rearing practices which have different impact on the child personality building. In Punjabi culture, the stages of rearing a child start from infancy where feeding, cradling and swaddling are the important activities. Then in early childhood toilet training of the child starts which is helpful in the personality build. The qualitative anthropological techniques were used to collect empirical data. 1 Corresponding author: unwaar@gmail.com