What Americans Can Learn From Parents Around the World (16 min podcast)

Chris Engel 8/23/136:00 PM

"In Germany, children can attend forest kindergartens and spend the entire day outside. In Japan, mothers encourage kids to fight with pretend swords or guns. And in Scandinavia, kids nap outdoors.

"Those are broad strokes, but by and large, parenting is different around the world.

"Mother and author Christine Gross-Loh discovered that when she lived in different countries for her book, “Parenting Without Borders: Surprising Lessons Parents Around the World Can Teach Us.”...

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/08/23/babies-world-cultures

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