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Sara Zaske

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Sara Zaske is a writer who has bounced from the US to Germany and back again. Her articles have appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, The ATLANTIC.COM and TIME.COM among other places.

Her new book about how Germans raise self-reliant children, ACHTUNG BABY, is available now from Picador USA.

She also has young adult fantasy novel THE FIRST (2012)

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Keep Idaho kids free

I once lived in a kids’ ghost town. It was a safe neighborhood filled with families, but with no kids anywhere. Not on the sidewalks, or the playground or even their own front yards.

When I dared let my children walk to school by themselves, I was warned about predators and others who would call the cops on me for not supervising my kids. This was not a dystopian warzone or crime-ridden slum: it wa

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“But it makes an odd sort of sense when viewed as part of the value Germans place on responsibility. Each child at the playground was expected to judge for herself what she could or could not do. Parents did not run around after their children telling them this slide was too fast or that climbing structure was too high. The children learned to manage the risk on their own and prepared themselves for each new challenge, like Sophia was starting to do with the dragon.”
Sara Zaske, Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children

“Germans have grappled with their Nazi past and actively looked for ways to ensure it never happens again, including changing how they raise and educate their children. If today’s Germans feel it is important to promote their children’s independence, then we Americans might do well to take a hard look at reasons why we do not.”
Sara Zaske, Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children

“In Frankfurt, Monika Seifert started kinderläden, day care centers, which emphasized “repression-free” education, a philosophy that deliberately set itself against the old “German virtues of obedience, diligence, modesty, and cleanliness.” Seifert’s anti-authoritarian theory basically held that children should rule themselves—or run wild, depending on your perspective.”
Sara Zaske, Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children

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