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edeion on July 2, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to get kids to pay attention

The article "Letting Kids Light Matches and 9 other seemingly scary things that German parents do" [1] provides the point of view of an American mother on parenting and schooling in Germany. (I can't check the link from France, hope it works.) Otherwise, it's all about Sara Zaske's book "Achtung Baby", anyway [2].

1. http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/parenting/sc-fam-ge...

2. https://sarazaske.com/upcoming-book-achtung-baby/

mac01021 on July 3, 2018 [–]

Have not (yet) read this article.

Nonetheless, I'm a 34-year-old American who has been lighting matches since probably the age of 5 or 6...

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