Achtung baby : an American mom on the German art of raising self-reliant children

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Parenting > Germany.
Parenting > United States.
Self-reliance in children.
Parent and child.

ISBN: 9781250160171
Physical Description ix, 239 pages ; 25 cm
Edition First edition.
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2018.
Copyright ©2017.

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Achtung Baby : An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children

by Zaske, Sara

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Achtung Baby : An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Introduction: Modern Germany	p. 1
	Beyond the Stereotype	p. 3
	A Short Historical Update	p. 5
	The Culture of Control	p. 9
	Why German Parenting Matters	p. 10
1	Leaving America	p. 15
	A Cold Arrival	p. 20
	Everything in Order	p. 22
2	Berlin Babies	p. 29
	Where Midwives Rule	p. 32
	The American Disadvantage	p. 36
	A Berlin Birth	p. 39
3	Attachment Problems	p. 43
	German Parents and Attachment Theory	p. 46
	Independent Infants	p. 48
	Mother Knows Best?	p. 53
4	Small Children, Small Worries (Kleine Kinder, Kleins Sorgen)	p. 57
	The Kindergarten East-West Legacy	p. 60
	Early Kita Skills	p. 63
	Quality of Care	p. 66
	Child-Care Benefits	p. 68
5	The Democratic Kindergarten	p. 71
	Faster or Better Learning	p. 73
	Children in Charge	p. 77
	Discipline	p. 78
	Kita Trips	p. 81
	Teaching Kita Skills in the United States	p. 82
6	Starting School	p. 86
	Play School	p. 91
	Educational Priorities	p. 93
	Homework, Food, and Protest	p. 96
7	No Bad Weather	p. 101
	America Inside	p. 105
	Germans and Free Nature	p. 107
	Taking Away the Toys	p. 110
8	The Freedom to Move	p. 115
	Why German Children Walk Alone	p. 122
	Freedom to Play	p. 126
9	Dangerous Things	p. 129
	The Art of Fire	p. 131
	Tools	p. 133
	Adventure Play	p. 134
	Necessary Dangers	p. 136
	A Celebration of Fear	p. 141
10	Tough Subjects	p. 144
	Death	p. 149
	Religion	p. 152
11	Facing the Past	p. 157
	The History of Memory	p. 160
	Historic Crimes and Responsibility	p. 165
12	Big Kids, Big Worries (Grosse Kinder, Grosse Sorgen)	p. 171
	The Space to Be Young	p. 172
	An Extra-Long Adolescence	p. 177
	The Academic Question	p. 179
	Achieving Adulthood	p. 182
13	Coming Back to America	p. 187
	Starting American School	p. 190
	Fourth-Grade Blues	p. 193
	Freedom for Kids in the Land of the Free	p. 196
	Epilogue German Lessons	p. 202
	The Rights of Children	p. 205
	Freedom of Ideas	p. 208
	Bibliography	p. 211
	Acknowledgments	p. 227
	Index	p. 229

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