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| German Parenting; Klaus, how much of this is true? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 24 2015, 01:47 PM (162 Views) | |
| Axtremus | Feb 24 2015, 01:47 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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(hat tip Quirt)
Source: http://time.com/3720541/how-to-parent-like-a-german/ Klaus, I am curious how much of the above you think is true of German parenting? |
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| George K | Feb 24 2015, 01:57 PM Post #2 |
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Sounds like pretty much the way I was raised in suburban Chicago. Walk to and from the bus stop - alone. Play anywhere on my block, unsupervised, just be home when the lights came on. Fire? I had a chemistry set when I was about 12. It had a Bunsen burner. No playgrounds had warnings, and we had merry-go-rounds, seesaws, and swings without harnesses. And look how I turned out. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Piano*Dad | Feb 24 2015, 02:12 PM Post #3 |
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Bull-Carp
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Yeah, you pass gas all the time …. I suspect that it's like most stories that attempt to stamp a national stereotype upon any large group of people. Some elements of the story may be broadly applicable, but hardly uniform. |
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| Klaus | Feb 24 2015, 02:12 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I think most of the article is pretty accurate. The only odd thing in the article is the part about "Jugendweihe", which is something I haven't heard of before. But most Germans, including myself, believe that it is more important for kids to be kids and play with their friends in the wood than to learn Chinese or the like. It is very rare to send kids to "preschool". Most children attend Kindergarten, which is much more oriented towards social behavior and playing. "Waldkindergarten" is quite fashionable these days. It means that the Kindergarten kids spend all their time in a forest, regardless of weather and time of the year. Our six year old boy takes the bus alone. We have taught our children many things before they attended elementary school, but not reading/writing and other elementary school stuff, because we are concerned that they'll be bored in school if they know this already. The only exception is maths (because I'm such a geek), but there we mainly talk about stuff they won't learn before they are 15, such that there isn't much redundancy with their elementary school curriculum. |
| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| Piano*Dad | Feb 24 2015, 02:14 PM Post #5 |
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Bull-Carp
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Teaching the little ones calculus already, I see!
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| John D'Oh | Feb 24 2015, 02:17 PM Post #6 |
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When I grew up we had a lot more freedom than kids now. Some of that at least was due to significantly less traffic. Plus, in England you can walk to the next village, either on the sidewalk or by cutting across farmland. Apart from the distance being less, there aren't any roads without sidewalks. I wouldn't ride a bike around here, much less let my kids on one, it would be as dangerous as hell. If you don't ride a back in the UK, you can catch a bus. Try doing that over here and you'll have a bloody long wait unless you're living in the city. It's not just the parenting, part of it is the overall infrastructure and culture. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Klaus | Feb 24 2015, 02:24 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Man, calculus is probably the most boring math topic ever! No, we talk about things like discrete mathematics, probability, logic, sets, and mathematical abstraction (such as in universal algebra). I don't know about maths in the US, but over here its main purpose seems to be to scare off kids from an otherwise beautiful subject. As a rule of thumb, all things that deal with numbers should be dropped from the maths curriculum IMO
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