Achtung baby : an American mom on the German art of raising self-reliant children
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250160171
- ISBN: 1250160170
- ISBN: 9781250189936
- ISBN: 1250189934
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Physical Description:
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ix, 239 pages ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Picador, 2018.
- Copyright: ℗♭2017
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-225) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction Modern Germany. Beyond the stereotype ; A short historical update ; The culture of control ; Why German parenting matters -- 1. Leaving America. A cold arrival ; Everything in order -- 2. Berlin babies. Where midwives rule ; The American disadvantage ; A Berlin birth -- 3. Attachment problems. German parents and attachment theory ; Independent infants ; Mother knows best? -- 4. Small children, small worries (Kleine Kinder, kleine Sorgen). The kindergarten east-west legacy ; Early kita skills ; Quality of care ; Child-care benefits -- 5. The democratic kindergarten. Faster or better learning ; Children in charge ; Discipline ; Kita trips ; Teaching kita skills in the United States -- 6. Starting school. Play school ; Educational priorities ; Homework, food, and protest -- 7. No bad weather. America inside ; Germans and free nature ; Taking away the toys -- 8. The freedom to move. Why German children walk alone ; Freedom to play -- 9. Dangerous things. The art of fire ; Tools ; Adventure play ; Necessary dangers ; A celebration of fear -- 10. Tough subjects. Death ; Religion -- 11. Facing the past. The history of memory ; Historic crimes and responsibility -- 12. Big kids, big worries (Grosse Kinder, grosse Sorgen). The space to be young ; An extra-long adolescence ; The academic question ; Achieving adulthood -- 13. Coming back to America. Starting American school ; Fourth-grade blues ; Freedom for kids in the land of the free -- Epilogue German lessons. The rights of children ; Freedom of ideas. |
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Subject: | Parenting -- Germany Parenting -- United States Self-reliance in children Parent and child |
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