Achtung Baby

CONTENTSIntroduction: Modern Germany
(Beyond the Stereotype; A Short Historical Update; The Culture of Control; and 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)

Bibliography
Acknoledgments
Index

Sara Zaske