The Childhood Training of Mestizo and Mestiza Maranaos (Muslim Maranao - Christian)

1. Childhood
Training

2. Since childhood, the half-
Maranaos socialization
processes are differentiated
by GENDER

3. Household Training
Boys Girls
 Given LIGHT TASKS
 Cleaning
 Washing Dishes
 Assigned for HEAVY
WORKS
 Fetching Water
 Watering the Plants
 Scrubbing the Floor
 Doing Errands
Importance: to impart to them some sense of
DICIPLINE & RESPONSIBILITY.

4.  Boys' & girls' rooms were separated.
Girls were given advantage treatment over the boys.
 Girls were given more love and affection.
 Girls were treated more tenderly and gently.
•Boys were given relative freedom of going out with
their playmates. While the girls were usually instructed
to go home directly after classes.

5. Language
 Those informants who said they spoke both
Maranao and Cebuano were taught on Maranao by
their fathers and Cebuano by their mothers.
 Some informants who lived in Christian areas,
where Cebuano is the dominant language, were not
able to internalize Maranao words that their fathers
tried teaching them, but they were able to
understand some of these words.

6. Food
▪ prohibited from
eating pork
Dressing
▪ certain dressing
requirements and
restrictions were
imposed to them,
especially women
 Except for those
who had a
'' Christian'' way
of being raised at
home.

7. Cultural & Religious Values
and
Practices

8. Those who grew up with their
Muslim parent/s were taught...
• praying five times a day (sahada)
•going to the mosque on Friday
•fasting on the month of Ramadhan
•attend a madrasah in childhood

9. Christian Orientation
▪ Saying prayers
▪ Attending church regularly
▪ Observing Christian holidays