What we can learn from the German approach to parenting
First rule of contemporary parenting: you?re not doing it right. Second rule: somebody else, somewhere else in the world, is.
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Perhaps it?s the Finns, whose offspring don?t enter school until age 7 but are nonetheless The Smartest Kids in the World, according to science writer Amanda Ripley. Maybe the Chinese, depending on whether you think Yale law professor Amy Chua?s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom is the ultimate parental guide or child abuse or the peculiar practices of one hyper-achieving family. Could be the French, if you are of the heretical school that hardly dares?outside of journalist Pamela Druckerman in Bringing Up Bébé?speak its belief: the best parenting style is the one that?s easiest on parents. Or maybe, surprisingly for any North American still harbouring notions of Teutonic strictness, it?s the Germans, who have made corporal punishment?and homeschooling?illegal, and whose children are far more free-range creatures (in every sense) than their counterparts across the Atlantic. As Sara Zaske recounts in Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children, she would often arrive at her daughter?s preschool on a hot day to find 18 tiny kinder happily splash...
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