![]() ![]() What’s wrong with such books is not that we can’t learn a lot from other people’s “parenting principles” but that, invariably, you get the problems along with the principles. ![]() So why not move eastward through Europe, until we get the book on parenting the Moldavian way? But Sara Zaske’s “ Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children” (Picador) is perhaps an inevitable follow-up to “ Bringing Up Bébé,” that best-selling book about parenting the way the French supposedly do it-basically, as though the kids were little grownups, presumably ready for adultery and erotic appetites. It was, after all, Teutonic styles of child rearing that were once viewed with disgust-as in “The Sound of Music,” for a long time the most popular of all American movies, with all those over-regimented Trapp kids rescued by wearing the bedroom drapes and singing scales. ![]() We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans. The result of cramming kids isn’t as predictable as enthusiasts hope or critics fear. ![]()
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