by Maggie Downs posted in Life

After Sara Zaske moved from Oregon to Berlin with her husband and toddler, it didn?t take long for her to see the German cultural value of selbständigkeit ? self-reliance ? in action.
It was obvious at the playground, where the children ran unsupervised and swung from structures made of rope and metal, free from the watchful eyes of parents. ?In America we might call this ?free-range? parenting, but in Germany it?s normal parenting,? Zaske writes in the new book, Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children.
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