@justmaria As far as I know, in all European countries, kids are raised to be a "normal" part of society. Kids go out to shop, take the bus or train, and go to activities by themselves, and parents take them everywhere they go. But at 8 am, usually, the kids have to be at home. Of course, teenagers have another time limit :)
Kindergarden starts at 2,5-3 years till elementary school starts at 6 years, so no, it‘s not 5 to 6th graders who are 11-12 years old, daycare starts at 1
Kids usually start to go to school between 6 and 7 in germany. and its absolutely normal at least at the age of 8 kids use public transport alone, going to school and so on.
Yeah, when i grew up (born in germany 1964) i was brought to school by my mother for the very first day, and after that we walked alone. It was maybe 1km to my first school and i normally just went with my friend who lived in the house next to ours. Also we were most of the day later out playing often in the next wood, also around 1km away in another direction.
Same my mom taught me to use the normal bus wrote the time when it came and the number onto my neckpurse and my older cousin who had gone to the same school just made sure i didnt end up as a sardine when the bus was too full
Not for all. Here the teachers do say they want that patents teach them to come alone first to second class but I need to guess. Maybe less than 50% do this in second grade.
Hi from Denmark.. yes babys sleep outside here to.. all year round.. its no problem.. I did it with my kids to.. my kids started to bike to School at the age of 6 and from the age of 8-9 by them self
Hi guys! Great reaction as always. I want to share something about three points of this video from my country. 🙂 1) When I was a kid (in Slovakia in mid 90's), we were expected to start going home from school alone in the first year, so mostly 7-years-old, without adults, alone or with your friends. If you didn't learn this in the 1st or 2nd year max, you would be seen (and also feel) like a baby unable to do anything without holding your mommy's hand. My school was only 4 minutes walk from my house and even if most of the kids of my primary school (aged 6-15) were living maybe 6 min max from the school too (because our neighbourhoods were built like that intentionally), some kids were from other neighbourhoods and had to take a bus to school every day. Without parents of course. Still today when I am in a bus in the morning or around 1 or 2 pm when most schools end, in the whole town there are always some kids of different ages going home, even little kids with school bags almost bigger than them. Also, most of the kids will have to go to their high school (aged 16- 19) by public transportation, so they better know well how to use it alone. 2) Letting a stroller with a baby completely unattended for a few minutes outside of a grocery store, other little shops or on the street under your window was common when I was a kid, I remember seeing it even 20 years ago. Usually only very little babies though, because once they can sit up alone, they could fall from the stroller, so they can't be left unattended even for a moment. It's not common now, I don't think I have seen it since. But babies are still left sleeping in the stroller at home on a balcony, on a fresh air, especially when the weather is cold, it's healthy and they sleep well like that. 3) About the Holocaust: During the WWII, Slovakia was a nazi country, a satellite of Germany, and it had 70.000 Jews killed in the concentration camps. Our anti-Jew laws were even worse than the German ones. In 1944, a Slovak National Uprising took place and people managed to fight the nazis almost with bare hands for two months, before the uprising was suppressed. This is considered as the greatest event in our history. We learn about all that, the good and the bad, since primary school (and it's all over the media every year), but since we go chronologically, the 20th century is the last thing we learn (in the last year aged 15) and often there is not enough time anymore for it, because we are always behind with the curriculum, so there is not that much attention paid to it. I think we should cut the prehistory shorter and leave more time to the recent history, which is still influencing the present. But we have always had some extra things like exhibitions about Holocaust in the corridors of my high school, especially on September 9th, the day of the victims of the holocaust and racial violence. There were also school trips to the Auschwitz concentration camp for the high school kids (aged 16-19) that wanted to go every year and the bus was always full.
Big Respect! This is the first time in my life that I hear somebody who is not German says: "My Country was a nazi country, a satellite of Germany ". Even the Austrians claim themselves as "First Victim". I am glad to hear, that not only in Germany but also in other countrys this time is taught in school too. It is so important to preserve the memories to save the future from such things.
@@andreastietz8231 Thanks! Facts are facts and you are right, we can't forget this dark part of our history. A less known fact is that as a satellite, Slovakia was also one of the countries that started the WWII alongside Germany and attacked Poland from south only 15 minutes after Germany did, even before the Soviet Union.
Its so funny to hear about americans saving the day at ww2. It was actually the Russians that made a Big breakthrough to the Germans trops They helped in the last days. But America also wanted to keep the hands under a Big Trade marked, so They made sure to give marchall help, so the trades could be alive in a devasted Europe.
In Germany the drinking happens in stages, when you are 16 you are allowed to drink a beer or wine, harder stuff is allowed with 18, so you get more eased into that culture, plus you have some experience with alcohol before you are allowed to drive a car (which is with 18). When I was a teenager in the early 90s, no one would comment if you had a beer or a wine mixed with water (Schorle) with 14 or 15 when your parents where present and allowed it. That was not unkommen, but wine and beer (depending on the area) are deeply rooted in our culture. After all it is not that long ago (give or take 200 years), that mild wine or beer where normal regular baverages most places, because you could not trust the water from the well.
It´s totally normal to leave the babys outside, when they´re sleeping. Why would anyone do harm to a little one. Everybodie would also look after the child. And I never heard about a kidnapping in this context, apart from maybe a mentaly instable person with a big urge to having a baby but isn´t for some reason able to become a mother or father. But this cases are usually solved inwith hours and nobody get´s harmed.
In the UK the legal drinking age is actually 5... As long as they're in their home. In a pub the age is 16 but only beer, wine or cider (no spirits) as long as it's with a meal but they can't purchase it until they're 18. Most places (not pubs) selling alcohol will ask for ID to prove you're over 25. I have never seen or heard of a pram being wheeled off by a stranger. We seem to take collective responsibility if we see a child 'parked' and the parent goes inside. What a lot of people don't know is that the British were instrumental in ending slavery sending the Royal Navy to intercept Slave ships. 1 Sailor died for every 9 slaves freed. Saudi Arabia didn't outlaw slavery until 1969...
Haha, i was born 1964 in germany, and i don't know how old i really was, but i was still at least in elementary school, when i already drank every evening a bit of wine or vermouth with my grandma whenever i was at her. I also think in public we can drink at 12 or 14 already if we are in company of our parents, grandparents, whatever.
And the most important topic: teach the children about history. For a better understanding of why we live as we do today. My kids learned about the Nazi regime in school when they were 8-9 years old. In a way suitable for children. Of course we spoke about it at home as well. And from then on this topic will come up every now and then in school. More intensive the older they get. It's all about knowing where we came from to appreciate the political situation we live in now. How are young adults supposed to vote if they don't know about the country's history they live in (and political developments and social conditions).
The kid is offered a choice and chooses radishes. I wonder if those two are linked. If the healthy option is always forced on you, then you will obviously go for the unhealthy option any time you can. But if you can choose, you'll just take whatever you are in the mood for. Of course, you don't want your child to live on nothing but pizza and burgers, but I do think giving them a choice every now and then (maybe even just a choice between multiple good options) is probably a good idea.
the out sourcing, we see the younger kids here every day, being taken out, to explore nature, you can tell, because the all have there hi vis jackets on, its a pleasure to see
1. It is absolutely normal for children to go to school alone or use public transport from elementary school onwards. (Even if the number of, I think you call them soccer mam, is increasing) It is also quite normal to see small groups of children between the ages of 6 and 10 walking through the city without their parents in pedestrian zones. 2. According to the German Federal Criminal Police Office, the majority of kidnappings in Germany are so-called child abduction. In this case, the child is withdrawn from the access of one parent by the other parent and is in most cases associated with a custody dispute. The total number is so small that it is included in the statistics for missing children. In Germany about 1500(+-) children go missing every year. Around 1,350 are either found by the police or return on their own, in both cases within a week. Subtracting custody cases leaves a small, double-digit number of children missing for extended periods. It is unclear how many of these are actually kidnapping. 3. My mother works in a kindergarten (age 2-6) and keeps telling me how children leave the food of a caterer who supplies them with food, as they cook extremely fish and meat. For this they literally tear my mother the vegetables out of her hand, and they are crazy about buttered bread with chives. But one must also say that vegetables are relatively good in Germany and also have their own taste. You can also eat a cucumber just like that, without spices, cheese sauce, BBQ dip or anything. For example, I really like eating raw zucchini, cut into sticks, simply with a pinch of salt and black pepper as a snack.
15:48 Those are not younger kids. 12 is not a young kid, that's someone who is almost an adolescent (and no adolescents are not children anymore!). She's talking about kids below age 10. Kindergarten kids are usually 3-6 years old. Some kids use public transportation to get to school by themselves even when they're in first grade (usually 6 years old). 16:17 It's not that bad in the USA either. According to the official US government data 1 out of 77,000 kids is abducted in the USA. That's not that many. The media in the USA blow the issue completely out of proportion and make it appear way worse than it is. By comparison - 1 out of 15,300 people get struck by lightning once during their lifetime in the USA. In other words: It's about 5 times as likely to get struck by a bolt of lighting than for a child to get abducted. 19:10 Yeah the slavery. Sure it was bad but when do US americans finally start to talk about the genocide committed against the Native Americans?
It's so sad that many children get no chance to play by themselves, or with friends, away from adults. I can understand if road traffic is too dangerous, but how do they learn independence? What a horrible childhood, with no freedom, no chance to explore, or use your imagination, or get up to harmless mischief.
For many Germans the first time they get dunk is around family. It´s quite common that for the "Konfirmation" or "Kommunion" (around 14-16 years old) there is a huge family and friends gathering and the youthlings and their friends get drunk under supervision there for the first time.
As a German in his 40s, leaving toddlers/babies outside seems weird to me. I guess it's not a big deal in villages where everybody knows each other and if it's a small store where the parent can watch the baby through the window... but even then... we leave dogs outside for obvious hygienical reasons... babies are a little bit more important that dogs. The cold however really isn't much of an issue nowadays anyways, but babies were fine if they were snugged into warm clothes and nice blanket even when I was a kid an snowy winters were still a thing.
It is not usual to let your kids outside, but sometimes this happens. If your kids is just asleep and you just want to grab a coffee or an ice cream, this might happen, and the father or mother always looks through the window, if the baby wakes up. We wouldn't do this, if we wanted to stay a longer time in the cafe, but for a few minutes, this is not unusual. Bringing kids in a restaurant normal, sometimes also in a Kneipe, a kind of German Pub. If you want to eat with the family, kids are a part of the family. Restaurants usually have chairs for smaller kids and if the adults want to drink an alcoholic or non-alcoholic beer (you get non-alcoholic tasty beer of any brewery) they are adult. Teenager under 16 are not allowed in a bar or club without an adult. She talked about day care, so kids between 1,5 and 6 years. Going outside with kids in day care is absolutely normal. Why shouldn't they go to a theater, a big playgroud, the librabry. Sometimes they visit churches, or the mayors office, the fire brigade and they have to go there or to use a bus or the railroad. That is lots of fun for the kids, and a bit stress for the day care workers, not to loose a child. But they are used to this, and the know, which kids need additional attention.
I am german. And I would like to think that germans kids are less likely to overdrink when they start drinking because they are only alowed to buy soft alcoholic drinks like beer and wine. They have to wait til they are 18 to drink hard licore. My parents let me try some secoo when I was even younger, for festivities. On the other hand, drinking is so ingrained in german society thats its pretty hard to not touch alcohol. We germans dont classify alcohol as a drug. So people who stay "nüchtern" - who dont drink, more often than not get some stupid comments. I had at least two alcoholic neigbors at my allotment garden (Kleingartenverein). Who sadly wherent able to beat their alcoholism due to constantly beeing exposed to alcohol, especially at club activities. One los this job and the other sadly got thorwn out by his wife, cause he was becoming a danger to her kid. The German " Ein Bier ist kein Bier" "one beer is no beer" is a bit to cavalier for my taste sometimes.
😂😂. Americans. I'm Swedish. Me, my siblings, everyone I know slept outside. The best of sleep. 10- mm mm mm. slept like a baby.😊😀. you guys are weird over there.
There is no "sweet sixteen! here, the one thing you look foreword to is maybe legally buying things. The big thing is starting to drive. (... like a small scooter)
Was in Florida in the 80s. Some restaurants and bars where they served alcohol looked like prisons from the outside. Someone told me that this is by purpose so that no passers-by could see people drinking alcohol inside. These were construction requirements. So the possibility of drinkung a beer outside was a nobrainer. I don´t know if things have changed meanwhile or how other US states handle the visibilty of people consuming alcohol. Though there are surely exceptions like christmas markets. One can drink Glühwein in the public in America`s largest one in Chicago.
i think it's very very crazy , you can get your drivers license at age of 16... then you can drive 5 years and becace a pretty good driver. In the age of 21 you drink the first time alcohol at a party or something and think you are a good and safe driver still, sit in your car, drive and take the life of a innocent mother and her 3 kids. R.I.P. Jenny
so i mean it's better first to learn what alcohol can do to your body and senses, before to learn to handle something, that can only be handled with clear senses
I live in Sweden and I would never put my(non existent) baby outside a grocery store or any other store, nor have I ever seen it. Maybe outside a café if I sat right next to the window so I could see. People sure love to paint Europe as some sort of paradise where crime never happens lol. People get kidnapped and murdered here too. Obviously not at the same level as in America, but it does happen. Letting small kids sleep outside at kindergardens is normal though, I think that's fine. About the drinking age, here it's 18. But you can't buy alcohol from the liquor store until you're 20 weirdly enough. But you can go to bars and stuff. 16 to me is pretty crazy.
Hi, a German here. Of course as an Italian you know it better in the end, but I have already seen Italians in Italy leaving their baby outside of the restaurant. That being said, maybe it‘s not that common in Italy - and in the south of Europe in general? I am not sure. In France, Denmark (probably Scandinavia in general, but not 100% sure about that), Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, it is definitely not uncommon to see strollers with babies that are parked outside.
What kind of a country do you live in that you're frightened of people kidnapping babies off the street every 5 minutes?? American fears and paranoia are either verging on mental instability or there is so much crime that the fears are well founded and the society has failed.
I also guess its just some kind of weird brainwashing, and when kids are kidnapped they are mostly from rich people so the kidnapper can get some money out of that, but (nearly) nobody kidnappeds a kid just "for fun" or because they are just in dire need to have a kid. And for all the child abuse things, tha happens mostly directly by family members or at least people they know.
@@Roger-np3wi I think your self-delusion is indicating the mental instability diagnosis here, however personally I'm leaning more to the out of control crime as the key issue and thus societal failure. However both could be true!!😄
@@RustyDust101 Holds up a sarcasm sign because apparently some readers do think I might be serious. Folks, this is the USA. Is there anything positive left to say about this country? It's been going downhill for decades, but with the former orange president in office with the hairstyle that looked like a strange animal had died on his head, something has changed even more massively for the worse.
I'm British and we always left our kids outside in their prams...my mum showed me the route to school on my first day and from then on I always walked there and back on my own, I was five and I walked to school every day until I was sixteen...this was the sixties to seventies and almost every kid did the same, this meant there was safety in numbers as loads of children were spoon the streets together. Drinking in the UK is no big deal, my parents always took us to the pub and we learnt how to behave at an early age...we would get a sip of sherry etc at Christmastime from a very early age and the majority of us would go into pubs alone and buy alcohol from age 14...again, we behaved sensibly. The American attitude to alcohol, sex and nudity is very weird to us! 🇬🇧😁👍💖
Yup same here, child of the 60s and early 70s. You've pretty much nailed it. Mum walked me school (about a mile away) for the first week (age 5) and then I went by myself and joined the crowd of kids on their way to various schools. 'Lollipop men/women' at the busy junctions and strict rules on crossing roads. Also, from about age 8 all kids were pretty much 'free range' with the only unbreakable rule being 'be back for tea; (4pm). Didn't have a watch? "You've got a mouth, ask someone". Around this time you might see lots of kids running down the street because if you broke the 'tea-time' rule there would be 'consequences'.
I am German. Exactly the same around here. In winter it is pretty cold and dark when you leave the flat 7:00h am😊 I can remember when we had swimming (in house 😊) we returned to school by bicycle... Ice in our hair. 😊
German here, it is crucial that we deal even with the darkest parts of our history. It teaches us respect and to take care that this never ever happen again
Yes, I think many countries would profit from our way of confronting the past with complete honesty. I have to say it's not easy on a personal level. I was taught about the holocaust as a child and as I'm a bit older I grew up with a grandfather who was an actual nazi and unfortunately he never changed his mind. As a young person that was maybe not mature enough to confront these things I was struggling with many feelings, I was questioning if I should actually exist because it is unjust that my grandfather has a grandchild while the people he had a share in murdering were robbed of future generations. This is just a personal experience of course and it's way more relevant to confront the past as a society, which many countries desperately need to do, Britain, the USA, Japan, other European countries, pointing the finger at us and celebrating themselves relentlessly has only caused problems for them and it's high time to hold themselves accountable for their own crimes.
In Germany, it is mostly the norm to have a cold dinner together as a family on weekdays. So, there is a variety of bread, cold cuts, cheese, and seasonal veggies, peppers, radishes, cucumbers, tomatoes etc. and the family sits down together, chat about their respective day and each makes their own varieties of sandwiches. It is very chill…
im saying this in the most respectful way ever but shielding kids from things like alcohol, sex, naked bodies etc. will always be counter productive. learning to handle alcohol, learning about your body, learning that naked skin is a normal human thing, is important. censoring everything, telling your kid alcohol is evil and sex is evil and never show any skin is so harmful to kids. think about it for a moment please
I'm not completely sure about that. Europeans actually do drink a lot more than Americans. I think a difference is that especially the youth learns how to handle it better, so there's less problems with people going overboard, but the average alcohol consumption is significantly higher, and that's not very healthy either. When you completely shield children from it, they'll get drunk out of their minds as soon as it's allowed, but for many of us Europeans alcohol is perhaps too much just a normal part of daily life.
Romanian here. Children are going alone to school here, some even to kindergarten. It's not unusual to see small kids, 5-6 year old, walking alone. We used to play alone outside since we were the same age of 4-5 and people still let their children to pay outside. I've never heard of any kidnaping here beside the usual "stories" some adults used to tell to discourage us to leave the neighbourhood. Children go to cinema, to school, to cafeteria usually alone. The children are allowed in restaurants and bars with their family members but I've not seen much in bars. I've let my 16 year old son taste alcohol to see how it is and even enjoy some fine drinks but with moderation and I don't encourage him to drink alone or with his friends. But keeping everything forbidden might develop an unhealthy curiosity. Better to find out sooner and learn the responsibility from us than drinking his minds pushed by entourage.
9:06 when it comes to exposing children to alcohol, it’s more about teaching them to enjoy it with a meal or snacks responsibly rather than allowing them to binge drink in secret while underage and get wasted to the point where they don’t remember the evening. As I grew up in Belgium, I had my 1st taste at 16, learned to take my time drinking while eating and now, I never feel the desire to drink all the time - only on social occasions and with family.
BTW: if there is something to read in your reaction video would you please be so kind and read it aloud for your viewers, ´cause for me it´s too small to get it. Thnx!
When I was little we ate pretty much anything and everything, and to this day, I never had any chain store coffee or food (by that I mean: Starbucks, McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, etc.). We often went into the mountains ( hiking not driving like they do today) to have a barbecue/picnic, and we'd eat grilled meats, but always combined with veggies, then we'd go harvesting in the woods and went home to have ice-cream ( either store bought soft-serve or home made by my godmother with the forest fruits we just brought home), and those were our summer weekends. If we were outside playing with the other kids, we'd just get whatever you could spread on a slice of bread, so we could run back out and eat it there LOL. The spreads were usually something veggie or combined with veggies. I'm not even gonna mention the amount of corn, watermelon, apples, plums and pretty much any orchard fruit we ate as kids.
@@m0t0b33 We've been to McDonald's or Burgerking but only 2 or 3 times a year. But the older I got, the less I wanted to go. I haven't been there for anything for almost 5 years now. My mother always cooked fresh and is quite talented and when we went to a fast food store it was only when we stopped on the freeway. We don't have a car so we were only there with friends who had one. I've never been to KFC or Dominos/Pizza hut or others besides McDonald's and Burgerking. I can't eat fruit because of allergies or just a little bit , so I'm more into vegetables and grains.
@@germanyhamburger5552 oh I'm from Romania, we don't get those "restaurants" all over the country, just in the big cities, and those are far away from where I live and grew up so... I traumatized and triggered a few Americans from my fb with that piece of info LOL.
@@m0t0b33 I think in Germany that only happens in a city with 500,000 residents. Or on the highway between two nearby cities, but they don't really exist in small towns either. I live in a big city with 2mio residents and I think there are max 10 McDonalds here.
I live in Norway. When I was 15 my class visited local pow mass graves from ww2 and when I was 16 my class went to Poland to visit Auschwitz. You learn a lot more by visiting places rather than just reading in a book.
One who does not know the history is doomed to repeat it. One reason, why the US is still stuck in racism and social injustice and selfishism. Greetings from Germany
i would agree, if you don't mean by this, that germany (or any other country) has no racism or injustice problem. we sure have, way smaller than in the US maybe, but i think problems like that never disappear completly. too many dumb ppl nowadays ;)
@@somersaultcurse I think racism is everywhere, as it is a 'natural behaviour' to be afraid of the different. But we (as humans) should try to overcome this 'instinct' as far as possible. By learning to know 'the others', acceptance and empathy will grow and racism will start to disappear.... I think.
I find it crazy that 16 year olds are considered as „little children“. When i was 16 I began my apprenticeship as industial mechanic and earned my first money. Many friends of mine as well. I guess, in general, in Germany is a matureisher behaviour (I hope that word make sense) with 16 more expected than in the US?
It used to be normal in the UK up until the 70s to leave kids in their prams outside shops. We were drinking in pubs at 16, some kids looked older at 15.
About looking forward to drinking age in Germany, it is less hyped compared to the US I would say, mostly bc, if you are 14 and your parents allow it, you can already drink, if you are 16, you are allowed to buy the lighter drinks yourself and at 18 you are allowed to buy all kinds of Alcohol. But bc you can start drinking from the age of 14, I'd say many people don't really hype it up, bc they barely got into the age where alcohol has become a topic of interest and they can already engage with it. And it would be kinds weird to celebrate to be able to buy alcohol on your own, when you know you could drink it before as well. It is rather celebrated to turn 16 or 18 bc of FSK (Film and Video game age ratings), to finally buy those kind of media and legally engage with those [edit: 15:00 she was talking about german Kindergarten, so you have to imagine 3-6/7 year old Kids going on field trips on puplic transportation with the educators]
If something bad happened in history and you don´t want it to happen again you have to teach the next generations what happened and how it happened. Otherwise you can´t be sure that it will happen again. That´s the reason why "Third Reich" and WWII is a very important topic in our schools.
Actually they only hide history because they want or repeat it or create their own narrative to fit their agenda... that's why there's this whole craziness going on in the US with racism and other stuff. Uninformed people are easier to manipulate. Do you know how many Americans think the only slaves that were out there were the black ones, and that the slave owners are/were exclusively white?
when it comes to alcohol in europe do remeber in most countries you can drink nearly anywhere and everywhere so keeping kids away from alcohol is kinda impossible. also most kids just learn to get used to the loud atmosphere associated with people having a good time.. i remeber many times as a kid just sleeping under a table or in a corner at a party when i got tired.. and basically learned to get used to sleep in noise... was good times and fun times!
well, kids who turn 16 already have been drinking something at home.. my kids of 14 and 15 could try a glass of champagne or a glass of wine or beer at a family party. So they’re not really looking forward to turning 16 for that reason. Also, it’s not because they can drink alcohol that they”re trying to get drunk. We try to educate our children to use alcohol wisely. Of course there will be some kids who want to get drunk, but I don’t think that’s the majority.
we have mothers, who have dropped there older kids of school, go to the chain pub's, with children for coffee and breakfast, mothers meet up, then go shopping or something, thats around 9am in the morning in the UK. im north UK i cant speak for the south The Uk pub culture is also a social meeting place, you dont have to drink, soft drinks, coffee or tea, no one looks at you, its normal
pshhh, when I was little, we often went out to bars/pubs with our parents, they'd drink their drinks, we'd drink juice or soda... and since that was a "delicacy" to us back then, we were happy to hang out with the grown ups and drink "rare" drinks.
German here... I once took my newborn son (can´t remember the exact age, but it was somewhere in his 1st year) to a pub/restaurant, to meet some friends, arriving there at around 8-9 PM. Some time into the evening, with my son sleeping in his buggy right next to our table, a random guest scolded me for having him there at this time of day... My only answer was: "I prefer to have him here with me than back home with his mom, who cares more about her online game than him!" That pretty much shut that person up!
In Bulgaria our chidren still go from kindergarden to a theater for ex. walking with 2 or 3 teachers for 30 children and no one is afraid of that even if they have to cross streets.
As a Dutch person I can tell you Kids and cold and rain is not a problem just give them some appropriate clothes and let him go outside to play. Kids will be hardened by the weather and don't really mind the weather at all. When I went to school for years I went on my bike day in day out for a total of 12 kilometers that's I believe about 7 miles to school and back, again no matter what the weather was It could rain, snow or even a big storm and I have walked multiple time the whole 12 kilometers against the wind with my bike beside me because there was too much wind to get on the bike itself and there where moments I even had to lay me bike down on the street because the wind was so strong it just blew it up in the air and I could hardly hang on to it. So Dutch kids are very strong and healthy because of this mentality. Now that said no one will take a kid or a baby, first of all there are too many eyes on the kid no one would allow something to happen to a kid and because of the society as it is mentality wise it just doesn't happen and even someone who is mentally sick would think twice if he grew up in a society which will not tolerate this at all, my mother used to left me outside in the trolley while she went into a store. These days the stores are much bigger and some take the kids with them into the store but sometimes I still see multiple kids in trolleys outside a store even dogs are sitting next to the kids and the kids are talking and the dogs are playing with the kids so no it should not be a problem.
Yes, the same my childhood Northern Germany. I guees you also did not have much snow in winter, but when we had it sometimes , we loved to build an Iglo and were sitting and playing in it the whole day, till it became dark!
I’m from France 🇫🇷 and the Bitish 🇬🇧 make me laugh 😆! I love them for this 🥰🙌Humor! I’m from France 🇫🇷 and the Bitish Humor make me laugh 😆! I love them for this 🥰🙌! (Mr Bean was the guy at 20:10 before sleeping as a child)! 🤗🥺😞.
America doesn't have to go back in time to do the same thing again, it's still happening today but now YOU'RE expected to TIP the slaves so they get paid👍
And people don't take kids in England, last thing you want is to be locked up in a British nick with anything to do with hurting women or children on your record... You will get destroyed first day ,k.o.s
As a German, I think the mother offered all those cool food options as kind of a "treat", because she was leaving to spend some time on her own or with the partner. And also, to kind of "celebrate" to have an evening with someone cool/nice babysitting you - if this makes sense (Sorry, my German would be much better :) !) !
I think it’s more common in the USA to hide bad history and risks from kids as long as possible, but in that way you are not learning how to handle these things. For example primary schools in the neighbourhood of a military graveyard there is mostly a tradition of adopting these grave by the kids of the school. These grave yards are from ww2 battles and because the relatives of these soldiers live far away the maintenance and attention to these grave are done by the local community.
In the US, a girl who is 18 years old, can be cast to make a porn movie with 3 or 4 dudes...but she can't get a beer. And if there's someone who deserves a cold beer, is that girl.
To seperate Fact and fiction of History is importend to come over it. If you try to hide or play down what happend especialy if everyone else exectly knows whats up , it is done becouse of shame. The Cancle culture and all this stuff grow out of that shame. There are many unspoken things that wouldn´t need to be discussed if every one knows what is fact. I sometimes think but maybe it´s ignorant to do so, that Americans forgot over the Years, whatis fact becouse it was mixed with so much fiction. Stuff like, Slavery has nothing to do with Racism, The only reaseon why slaves are black is the distance between West africa and America. European ore Asian slaves simply didn´t survived the shipping but if it were cheaper back than all Slaves would be from any where else. To me it feals like americans avoid that and other arguments becouse it takes the wind out of any argumantation that you aren´t selfe responce to your present, and it doasn´t matter witch argument you bring to the " this is why " table. Who think that anyone would chouse the black slave if the white is cheaper still don´t understand the "this is why " table and more ovver don´t see that it stands in the doasn´t matter room.
hey, watched a few vids of yours now and i would like to give you some constructive feedback, like we germans do :p don't know your names, sry, but the girl is way to quiet most of the time - which, considering where you are from, is quite exceptional to be frank ;) maybe adjust mic volume? please don't start screaming 24/7 like all other americans :D (and i don't know how it is called in english, but you should avoid to "nuschel" while speaking - basically eating/swallowing half of some words ... idk how to describe it better :D) additionally, you can use the arrow keys to skip a few seconds ahead or back and the '.' and ',' key to go frame by frame. if you pause to read, you should read out aload, so the viewer can stay on your pace. if the viewer wants to read something, they can do it by themselves. watchin someone just read, without much else going on, is boring content. also, if you pause the video, you should skip back a few seconds (one "
Hayley is an amazing UA-camr. She makes a lot of videos based on her own personal experience. Most of them aren't completely uncritical. Edit: yes, slavery was officially abolished in 1864 in the USA but segregation laws persisted well after 1960 in the USA, which were at least (!) a direct consequence of slavery. The USA has NEVER officially declared slavery to have been a crime against humanity, nor has there been ANY official recompense for the direct and indirect victims of slavery. But what is even more staggering are the numbers of indigenous people killed since effectively 1500 until 1900. The estimates of how many indigenous people lived in the area of what is now the USA in 1500 varies quite a lot. The lowest estimate (highly questionable) is around 3 million, a more reasonable estimate somewhere between 11 and 13 million, with a maximum estimate of 18 million. In 1900 the total number of indigenous people in the USA had been reduced by vicious slaughter and reprisals down to less than 230 000. Over the course of four centuries, a total of well over 50 million indigenous people had been killed in the area of USA today, the vast number of which were women and children. Remember, at this time, the total population of Earth hovered between 2 and 3 billion total. So from a total percentage of Earth's population killed, the USA outstrip ALL previous atrocities, even beyond the devastating slaughter of the mongol hordes. That this is not taught in US schools is devastating. That is why Germany found it so essential to teach students about history, to remember it, and prevent it from happening again. We can't demand other countries hold themselves accountable for their history; we only demand it of ourselves. Acknowledgement of the past is the first step towards normalization. Whitewashing history only leads to festering pus in the wounds left after such atrocious acts.
I guess in most countries with a colonial past we have tried not to speak that much about the rude aspects of our history... although in recent years this has changed A LOT and many have begun to understand many things that were "sugar covered" as fairy tales until very recently, BUT because of this extreme ignorance about our past this has also given rise to perverse new "cover-up" strategies and new fairy tales based on "positive-discrimination" (like destroying evidence, monuments, documents, symbols generated during that "problematic" past)!!! This obtuse policy of trying to force our actual values on the past, is equally destructive and stupid as perpetuating the perspective from the "happy slave", the "compassionate statesman", or the "noble savage"... that is why it is always better to tell the whole story, even the not so nice parts! I say this quite responsible in my experience as an archaeologist and ethnohistorian
Germany was forced, especially by the US, to face the ugliness of the Third Reich and to be deeply ashamed of everything that Nazi Germany did and the pain it inflicted on people. All the dark sides of Germany are discussed in history lessons and a visit to Dachau or any other concentration camp is almost obligatory when this chapter is discussed during history lessons. In the US, on the other hand, most Americans have no idea what the US did to those Japanese that lived in America during WWII. The US has its own concentration camps but nobody is talking about that fact.
Actually she is talking about children of the age between 3-6 that you see as a group walking on the street or in the forest, ofcourse with Kindergarten guardians. I know this because i have two sons and at this age they had a beach day once a week , they were at least once a week outside of Kindergarten even thou they s huge playground the actual building Was big...wirh the food is the same they start here at Kindergarten with healthy food so kids grow up trying healthy food if they stick to it , i cant answer, my boys love healthy foods specially fresh fisch..so i can confirm some of her points...
About babies left outside in a stroller. This has been done a lot in Norway too ( and in our neighbouring countries.) I think most parents will make sure they can see the stroller from where they are sitting, and keep an eye out there.
I think the bar culture and vibes is completely different in Germany, more like a traditional environment where the community gather together to drink beer like a large family and has been like that for millennia
For some years now, it has been common practice for kindergartens to be "sugar-free". No sweets, no sugared desserts and generally balanced meals. I think that makes a lot of difference. Of course, children will snack in private. But in daycare centers and schools, healthy meals are being offered. So children get used to the taste of vegetables right from the start.
im from Belgium and i started drinking at the age of 12 with my parents and at 15 i went to bars with my friends and yes by the time i was 21 i bearly drank any alchohol anymore
I worry about the fantasy history that is taught in American schools. Understanding the struggle of progress is so important, it gives perspective and encourages appreciation of the variety of lifestyles that have had major roles in bringing us to here. If the history is not taught factually the lessons that should be learnt from history are lost and destined to be repeated.
As someone who went to school in America I wouldn't say it's "fantasy history" across the board, but the quality of history lessons can vary dramatically depending on what kind of teacher you happen to have
In Denmark, pretty much every parent would feel calm leaving a stroller outside a cafe. Also when i was growing up in Copenhagen, which is our biggest city, me and my friends were running all over town by ourselves every hour of the day, and you always feel safe. You dont even think about something can happen to you.
Yea when you turn 16 here you are like yay I can finally drink and if you are the first one in your friend group you are the one who has to buy all the booze. That being said, in Germany you only get beer and wine at that age so no strong spirits. And yea usually by the time turn 21 you had your experiences. It’s not like people don’t drink anymore but the wild stuff happens around 18 when you leave our „highschools“.
I think the history thing is that usa as country doesn't take responsibility for all the crimes they did, always shows themselves as heros and rewrite history
Germany is a big country with different regions, and every region is different. You can`t generalize German people and their habits. You would never say that Florida has a lot in common with Texas.
Thank you for saying this. People do the same about the USA. Germany is the size of Texas. As an America I find it offensive when people make huge generalizations about my country as though all 330 million people are the same. I also would sound like an idiot if I made huge generalizations about Germany.
15:51 Kindergarten is for pre-school kids so they're 6-7 at most. Those are the kids she means, though during these outsourcing field trips there are usually at least two adult chaperones from the daycare.
Hayleys channel is really good, if you like to know it bit more about Germany, she does it pretty good, with putting a lot of hard work in the research.
Polish living in Ireland: - living strollers outside: have not seen in either. I don't think anyone would be shocked to see it around a shop or coffee place - kidnappings - in Poland (and i imagine also i rest of EU) is rare and if it happens it's nearly entirely cases where one parent takes the kid without/against will of other parent - bars - normal in both PL and IE, though pub culture is way different - in PL is nearly entirely for young people (18-40), while in Ireland it's everyone and i feel perhaps mostly older folk. As kid it was always fun to sit at the bar - people behind the bar would joke with you and usually you would get some sips of lighter stuff like beer with syrup - vegetables - dunno for Ireland, but in Poland during summer holiday in the country side we would go to fields and dig up stuff like carrots, radishes, ground cucumbers or kohlrabi and eat them as a snack. Pretty much everyone i know still remembers taste of such earth vegetables with bit of sand :) Also vegetables/fruits in Europe got taste - having moved to Ireland i feel their produces is generally tasteless, meanwhile americans coming here are awed how good everything is - kindergarten kids - in Poland it's common sight during the day to see army of kids going somewhere with teachers. Nowdays they got a thing called walking snake & high-visibility vests so that they are visible and hold it and not wander off. The sight is both hilarious and adorable - a group of confused gnomes bumbling around google pics for "wąż spacerowy". I have yet to see that in Ireland - i guess it's becouse Ireland is nearly as car centric as US and pedestrian infrastructure is barely existent - teaching about tragedies - in Poland since pretty much elementary schools you are flooded with news how many people and how died everywhere during wars.
KIndergarten is like preschool or day care in the US, the age is usually 3-6. Don´t know why but u mixed that up in the States. In Germany preschool is after the Kindergarten at the age of 5-6 and its kind of optional, u can also stay in the Kindergarten before elementary school (or Grundschule) starts. The age of children in elemtary school is usually 6 - 10.
Seeing babies outside a cafe or shop or especially the post office, used to be normal in the south of the Netherlands at least. Don't see it so much these days. Then again, we have all lot of SUV drivers these days as well.
I grew up in a small town in Germany and we were out and about biking when we were like 8 or 9. We drove to our friends in another part of the town with our bikes (or took the bus or tram) or to the nearest lake for a swim or something. We were taught to not go with strangers and we were familiar with all the places before we went on our own of course. I even went to school by foot three weeks after I got into first grade. I was six, my school was not really far away but I could go there with my friends without any adults. It was just normal. But nowadays even German parents tend to drive their kids everyhere. They learn to be independent way later then in my childhood in the 90s. Don't know where this came from within last 20-25 years??
German here. - Learning about the holocaust is mandatory in German schools grade 9 and 10, they want to teach kids „never again“. But I think, once more people overdo it here. Kids grow up without national pride, and I don’t know if that’s too healthy. The only time this is ok is within sports, especially soccer world championship, then everyone would decorate with the German flag. But if you have a German flag regularly in your front yard - jeez, you must have nazi tendencies, don’t do that! I‘ve lived in different countries as a kid. I remember standing in school age 15 together with my brother and seeing shocked faces from the other kids when we said, no, we‘re not proud to be German. We just aren’t, that’s not what we’re taught. And the national anthem is not sung at all during your time in school, let alone every morning. We lived in the US when my kids were in primary school. My son‘s teacher was worried about his self esteem. I loved it, but I was very surprised. No teacher would care about the kids self esteem here, at least not that I‘ve ever experienced it.
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I wouldn't say just Germany is like this all of the Nordic countries is the same when it comes to teaching kids independence
We take our bikes and then we are off.
@justmaria
As far as I know, in all European countries, kids are raised to be a "normal" part of society. Kids go out to shop, take the bus or train, and go to activities by themselves, and parents take them everywhere they go. But at 8 am, usually, the kids have to be at home. Of course, teenagers have another time limit :)
I think it's everywhere BUT the US that children are treated like this.
Kindergarden starts at 2,5-3 years till elementary school starts at 6 years, so no, it‘s not 5 to 6th graders who are 11-12 years old, daycare starts at 1
Nordic? You've never been to Italy, Greece, Hungary, Tunesia, Egypt, etc. pp.
Kids usually start to go to school between 6 and 7 in germany. and its absolutely normal at least at the age of 8 kids use public transport alone, going to school and so on.
Yeah, when i grew up (born in germany 1964) i was brought to school by my mother for the very first day, and after that we walked alone. It was maybe 1km to my first school and i normally just went with my friend who lived in the house next to ours.
Also we were most of the day later out playing often in the next wood, also around 1km away in another direction.
Same my mom taught me to use the normal bus wrote the time when it came and the number onto my neckpurse and my older cousin who had gone to the same school just made sure i didnt end up as a sardine when the bus was too full
Not for all. Here the teachers do say they want that patents teach them to come alone first to second class but I need to guess. Maybe less than 50% do this in second grade.
Hi from Denmark.. yes babys sleep outside here to.. all year round.. its no problem.. I did it with my kids to.. my kids started to bike to School at the age of 6 and from the age of 8-9 by them self
Hi guys! Great reaction as always. I want to share something about three points of this video from my country. 🙂
1) When I was a kid (in Slovakia in mid 90's), we were expected to start going home from school alone in the first year, so mostly 7-years-old, without adults, alone or with your friends. If you didn't learn this in the 1st or 2nd year max, you would be seen (and also feel) like a baby unable to do anything without holding your mommy's hand.
My school was only 4 minutes walk from my house and even if most of the kids of my primary school (aged 6-15) were living maybe 6 min max from the school too (because our neighbourhoods were built like that intentionally), some kids were from other neighbourhoods and had to take a bus to school every day. Without parents of course. Still today when I am in a bus in the morning or around 1 or 2 pm when most schools end, in the whole town there are always some kids of different ages going home, even little kids with school bags almost bigger than them. Also, most of the kids will have to go to their high school (aged 16- 19) by public transportation, so they better know well how to use it alone.
2) Letting a stroller with a baby completely unattended for a few minutes outside of a grocery store, other little shops or on the street under your window was common when I was a kid, I remember seeing it even 20 years ago. Usually only very little babies though, because once they can sit up alone, they could fall from the stroller, so they can't be left unattended even for a moment. It's not common now, I don't think I have seen it since. But babies are still left sleeping in the stroller at home on a balcony, on a fresh air, especially when the weather is cold, it's healthy and they sleep well like that.
3) About the Holocaust: During the WWII, Slovakia was a nazi country, a satellite of Germany, and it had 70.000 Jews killed in the concentration camps. Our anti-Jew laws were even worse than the German ones. In 1944, a Slovak National Uprising took place and people managed to fight the nazis almost with bare hands for two months, before the uprising was suppressed. This is considered as the greatest event in our history. We learn about all that, the good and the bad, since primary school (and it's all over the media every year), but since we go chronologically, the 20th century is the last thing we learn (in the last year aged 15) and often there is not enough time anymore for it, because we are always behind with the curriculum, so there is not that much attention paid to it. I think we should cut the prehistory shorter and leave more time to the recent history, which is still influencing the present.
But we have always had some extra things like exhibitions about Holocaust in the corridors of my high school, especially on September 9th, the day of the victims of the holocaust and racial violence. There were also school trips to the Auschwitz concentration camp for the high school kids (aged 16-19) that wanted to go every year and the bus was always full.
Big Respect! This is the first time in my life that I hear somebody who is not German says: "My Country was a nazi country, a satellite of Germany ". Even the Austrians claim themselves as "First Victim". I am glad to hear, that not only in Germany but also in other countrys this time is taught in school too. It is so important to preserve the memories to save the future from such things.
@@andreastietz8231 Thanks! Facts are facts and you are right, we can't forget this dark part of our history. A less known fact is that as a satellite, Slovakia was also one of the countries that started the WWII alongside Germany and attacked Poland from south only 15 minutes after Germany did, even before the Soviet Union.
Its so funny to hear about americans saving the day at ww2. It was actually the Russians that made a Big breakthrough to the Germans trops They helped in the last days. But America also wanted to keep the hands under a Big Trade marked, so They made sure to give marchall help, so the trades could be alive in a devasted Europe.
In Germany the drinking happens in stages, when you are 16 you are allowed to drink a beer or wine, harder stuff is allowed with 18, so you get more eased into that culture, plus you have some experience with alcohol before you are allowed to drive a car (which is with 18). When I was a teenager in the early 90s, no one would comment if you had a beer or a wine mixed with water (Schorle) with 14 or 15 when your parents where present and allowed it. That was not unkommen, but wine and beer (depending on the area) are deeply rooted in our culture.
After all it is not that long ago (give or take 200 years), that mild wine or beer where normal regular baverages most places, because you could not trust the water from the well.
It´s totally normal to leave the babys outside, when they´re sleeping. Why would anyone do harm to a little one. Everybodie would also look after the child. And I never heard about a kidnapping in this context, apart from maybe a mentaly instable person with a big urge to having a baby but isn´t for some reason able to become a mother or father. But this cases are usually solved inwith hours and nobody get´s harmed.
In the UK the legal drinking age is actually 5... As long as they're in their home. In a pub the age is 16 but only beer, wine or cider (no spirits) as long as it's with a meal but they can't purchase it until they're 18. Most places (not pubs) selling alcohol will ask for ID to prove you're over 25.
I have never seen or heard of a pram being wheeled off by a stranger. We seem to take collective responsibility if we see a child 'parked' and the parent goes inside.
What a lot of people don't know is that the British were instrumental in ending slavery sending the Royal Navy to intercept Slave ships. 1 Sailor died for every 9 slaves freed. Saudi Arabia didn't outlaw slavery until 1969...
Haha, i was born 1964 in germany, and i don't know how old i really was, but i was still at least in elementary school, when i already drank every evening a bit of wine or vermouth with my grandma whenever i was at her.
I also think in public we can drink at 12 or 14 already if we are in company of our parents, grandparents, whatever.
Kindergarten in Germany is from 3or4-6 year old. So she's talking about this age walking through the cities, using public transport and so on.
lol. She wasn't talking about 12 year olds, she was talking about daycare. So around the ages 3-6.
Ireland - Kids in Bars- pretty similar. But you wouldn't bring your kid to the pub par say. Usually restaurant bars, that kind of place.
And the most important topic: teach the children about history. For a better understanding of why we live as we do today. My kids learned about the Nazi regime in school when they were 8-9 years old. In a way suitable for children. Of course we spoke about it at home as well. And from then on this topic will come up every now and then in school. More intensive the older they get. It's all about knowing where we came from to appreciate the political situation we live in now. How are young adults supposed to vote if they don't know about the country's history they live in (and political developments and social conditions).
The kid is offered a choice and chooses radishes. I wonder if those two are linked.
If the healthy option is always forced on you, then you will obviously go for the unhealthy option any time you can. But if you can choose, you'll just take whatever you are in the mood for.
Of course, you don't want your child to live on nothing but pizza and burgers, but I do think giving them a choice every now and then (maybe even just a choice between multiple good options) is probably a good idea.
Yup! This is a good take
the out sourcing, we see the younger kids here every day, being taken out, to explore nature, you can tell, because the all have there hi vis jackets on, its a pleasure to see
1. It is absolutely normal for children to go to school alone or use public transport from elementary school onwards. (Even if the number of, I think you call them soccer mam, is increasing)
It is also quite normal to see small groups of children between the ages of 6 and 10 walking through the city without their parents in pedestrian zones.
2. According to the German Federal Criminal Police Office, the majority of kidnappings in Germany are so-called child abduction. In this case, the child is withdrawn from the access of one parent by the other parent and is in most cases associated with a custody dispute.
The total number is so small that it is included in the statistics for missing children. In Germany about 1500(+-) children go missing every year. Around 1,350 are either found by the police or return on their own, in both cases within a week.
Subtracting custody cases leaves a small, double-digit number of children missing for extended periods. It is unclear how many of these are actually kidnapping.
3. My mother works in a kindergarten (age 2-6) and keeps telling me how children leave the food of a caterer who supplies them with food, as they cook extremely fish and meat.
For this they literally tear my mother the vegetables out of her hand, and they are crazy about buttered bread with chives.
But one must also say that vegetables are relatively good in Germany and also have their own taste. You can also eat a cucumber just like that, without spices, cheese sauce, BBQ dip or anything.
For example, I really like eating raw zucchini, cut into sticks, simply with a pinch of salt and black pepper as a snack.
15:48 Those are not younger kids. 12 is not a young kid, that's someone who is almost an adolescent (and no adolescents are not children anymore!). She's talking about kids below age 10. Kindergarten kids are usually 3-6 years old. Some kids use public transportation to get to school by themselves even when they're in first grade (usually 6 years old).
16:17 It's not that bad in the USA either. According to the official US government data 1 out of 77,000 kids is abducted in the USA. That's not that many. The media in the USA blow the issue completely out of proportion and make it appear way worse than it is. By comparison - 1 out of 15,300 people get struck by lightning once during their lifetime in the USA. In other words: It's about 5 times as likely to get struck by a bolt of lighting than for a child to get abducted.
19:10 Yeah the slavery. Sure it was bad but when do US americans finally start to talk about the genocide committed against the Native Americans?
It's so sad that many children get no chance to play by themselves, or with friends, away from adults. I can understand if road traffic is too dangerous, but how do they learn independence? What a horrible childhood, with no freedom, no chance to explore, or use your imagination, or get up to harmless mischief.
This is so true. But it’s just too big of a fear for majority of parents here
For many Germans the first time they get dunk is around family. It´s quite common that for the "Konfirmation" or "Kommunion" (around 14-16 years old) there is a huge family and friends gathering and the youthlings and their friends get drunk under supervision there for the first time.
As a German in his 40s, leaving toddlers/babies outside seems weird to me. I guess it's not a big deal in villages where everybody knows each other and if it's a small store where the parent can watch the baby through the window... but even then... we leave dogs outside for obvious hygienical reasons... babies are a little bit more important that dogs.
The cold however really isn't much of an issue nowadays anyways, but babies were fine if they were snugged into warm clothes and nice blanket even when I was a kid an snowy winters were still a thing.
It is not usual to let your kids outside, but sometimes this happens. If your kids is just asleep and you just want to grab a coffee or an ice cream, this might happen, and the father or mother always looks through the window, if the baby wakes up.
We wouldn't do this, if we wanted to stay a longer time in the cafe, but for a few minutes, this is not unusual.
Bringing kids in a restaurant normal, sometimes also in a Kneipe, a kind of German Pub. If you want to eat with the family, kids are a part of the family. Restaurants usually have chairs for smaller kids and if the adults want to drink an alcoholic or non-alcoholic beer (you get non-alcoholic tasty beer of any brewery) they are adult. Teenager under 16 are not allowed in a bar or club without an adult.
She talked about day care, so kids between 1,5 and 6 years. Going outside with kids in day care is absolutely normal. Why shouldn't they go to a theater, a big playgroud, the librabry. Sometimes they visit churches, or the mayors office, the fire brigade and they have to go there or to use a bus or the railroad. That is lots of fun for the kids, and a bit stress for the day care workers, not to loose a child. But they are used to this, and the know, which kids need additional attention.
I am german. And I would like to think that germans kids are less likely to overdrink when they start drinking because they are only alowed to buy soft alcoholic drinks like beer and wine. They have to wait til they are 18 to drink hard licore. My parents let me try some secoo when I was even younger, for festivities. On the other hand, drinking is so ingrained in german society thats its pretty hard to not touch alcohol. We germans dont classify alcohol as a drug. So people who stay "nüchtern" - who dont drink, more often than not get some stupid comments. I had at least two alcoholic neigbors at my allotment garden (Kleingartenverein). Who sadly wherent able to beat their alcoholism due to constantly beeing exposed to alcohol, especially at club activities. One los this job and the other sadly got thorwn out by his wife, cause he was becoming a danger to her kid. The German " Ein Bier ist kein Bier" "one beer is no beer" is a bit to cavalier for my taste sometimes.
😂😂. Americans. I'm Swedish. Me, my siblings, everyone I know slept outside. The best of sleep. 10- mm mm mm. slept like a baby.😊😀. you guys are weird over there.
There is no "sweet sixteen! here, the one thing you look foreword to is maybe legally buying things. The big thing is starting to drive. (... like a small scooter)
Kids can go in pubs in the U.K., in bars & restaurants, same throughout Europe.
Hayley is amazing !
Was in Florida in the 80s. Some restaurants and bars where they served alcohol looked like prisons from the outside. Someone told me that this is by purpose so that no passers-by could see people drinking alcohol inside. These were construction requirements. So the possibility of drinkung a beer outside was a nobrainer. I don´t know if things have changed meanwhile or how other US states handle the visibilty of people consuming alcohol. Though there are surely exceptions like christmas markets. One can drink Glühwein in the public in America`s largest one in Chicago.
I am not much interested in alcohol at all, but in Deleware there is not even beer on the shelves and restaurants are absolutely dry!
Not true at all. We DO NOT LEAVE OUR KIDS OUTSIDE. That's was a single experience for sure.
i think it's very very crazy , you can get your drivers license at age of 16... then you can drive 5 years and becace a pretty good driver. In the age of 21 you drink the first time alcohol at a party or something and think you are a good and safe driver still, sit in your car, drive and take the life of a innocent mother and her 3 kids. R.I.P. Jenny
so i mean it's better first to learn what alcohol can do to your body and senses, before to learn to handle something, that can only be handled with clear senses
There's a cool short documentary of how Japanese little kids learn to walk to school completely by themselves :D
I live in Sweden and I would never put my(non existent) baby outside a grocery store or any other store, nor have I ever seen it. Maybe outside a café if I sat right next to the window so I could see. People sure love to paint Europe as some sort of paradise where crime never happens lol. People get kidnapped and murdered here too. Obviously not at the same level as in America, but it does happen. Letting small kids sleep outside at kindergardens is normal though, I think that's fine.
About the drinking age, here it's 18. But you can't buy alcohol from the liquor store until you're 20 weirdly enough. But you can go to bars and stuff. 16 to me is pretty crazy.
Not normal in italy. We take our babies inside cafe', restaurants, etc. Never alones in a stroll.
Hi, a German here. Of course as an Italian you know it better in the end, but I have already seen Italians in Italy leaving their baby outside of the restaurant.
That being said, maybe it‘s not that common in Italy - and in the south of Europe in general? I am not sure.
In France, Denmark (probably Scandinavia in general, but not 100% sure about that), Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, it is definitely not uncommon to see strollers with babies that are parked outside.
@@klarasee806 probably north italy
@@francescogallina2559 Yes, it was in Milan.
Totally fine.
Normal in Denmark
Lynda, you strongly resemble Julia Roberts.
What kind of a country do you live in that you're frightened of people kidnapping babies off the street every 5 minutes?? American fears and paranoia are either verging on mental instability or there is so much crime that the fears are well founded and the society has failed.
I also guess its just some kind of weird brainwashing, and when kids are kidnapped they are mostly from rich people so the kidnapper can get some money out of that, but (nearly) nobody kidnappeds a kid just "for fun" or because they are just in dire need to have a kid. And for all the child abuse things, tha happens mostly directly by family members or at least people they know.
Hey, what do you mean, this is the best, greatest and also most beautiful country in the world.
@@Roger-np3wi I think your self-delusion is indicating the mental instability diagnosis here, however personally I'm leaning more to the out of control crime as the key issue and thus societal failure. However both could be true!!😄
@@Roger-np3wilet's just hope that your comment was sarcasm. For if not, sheesh😢
@@RustyDust101 Holds up a sarcasm sign because apparently some readers do think I might be serious.
Folks, this is the USA. Is there anything positive left to say about this country? It's been going downhill for decades, but with the former orange president in office with the hairstyle that looked like a strange animal had died on his head, something has changed even more massively for the worse.
sure. why not. kid is sleeping, is outside in fresh air. perfect für the health and absolutely safe
I'm British and we always left our kids outside in their prams...my mum showed me the route to school on my first day and from then on I always walked there and back on my own, I was five and I walked to school every day until I was sixteen...this was the sixties to seventies and almost every kid did the same, this meant there was safety in numbers as loads of children were spoon the streets together. Drinking in the UK is no big deal, my parents always took us to the pub and we learnt how to behave at an early age...we would get a sip of sherry etc at Christmastime from a very early age and the majority of us would go into pubs alone and buy alcohol from age 14...again, we behaved sensibly. The American attitude to alcohol, sex and nudity is very weird to us! 🇬🇧😁👍💖
Yup same here, child of the 60s and early 70s. You've pretty much nailed it. Mum walked me school (about a mile away) for the first week (age 5) and then I went by myself and joined the crowd of kids on their way to various schools. 'Lollipop men/women' at the busy junctions and strict rules on crossing roads. Also, from about age 8 all kids were pretty much 'free range' with the only unbreakable rule being 'be back for tea; (4pm). Didn't have a watch? "You've got a mouth, ask someone". Around this time you might see lots of kids running down the street because if you broke the 'tea-time' rule there would be 'consequences'.
Me too. I was born in 81 and I always slept outside as baby 😁
All Eng. are Saxon, so we are still the same. ; )
Same here in RO. I walked assisted only once to school and since then alone. About 7 ish
I am German. Exactly the same around here. In winter it is pretty cold and dark when you leave the flat 7:00h am😊 I can remember when we had swimming (in house 😊) we returned to school by bicycle... Ice in our hair. 😊
Kids must learn about the Hololcaust so it isn't forgotten, and that it isn't repeated.
Learn about it so it won't ever happen again. Exactly.
Doesn't stop Germans from voting for right-wing extremists again 😒
German here, it is crucial that we deal even with the darkest parts of our history. It teaches us respect and to take care that this never ever happen again
I just wish the rest of the World would do the same.USA too.Their army is on a World tour since WWII.
Yes, I think many countries would profit from our way of confronting the past with complete honesty. I have to say it's not easy on a personal level. I was taught about the holocaust as a child and as I'm a bit older I grew up with a grandfather who was an actual nazi and unfortunately he never changed his mind. As a young person that was maybe not mature enough to confront these things I was struggling with many feelings, I was questioning if I should actually exist because it is unjust that my grandfather has a grandchild while the people he had a share in murdering were robbed of future generations. This is just a personal experience of course and it's way more relevant to confront the past as a society, which many countries desperately need to do, Britain, the USA, Japan, other European countries, pointing the finger at us and celebrating themselves relentlessly has only caused problems for them and it's high time to hold themselves accountable for their own crimes.
In Germany, it is mostly the norm to have a cold dinner together as a family on weekdays. So, there is a variety of bread, cold cuts, cheese, and seasonal veggies, peppers, radishes, cucumbers, tomatoes etc. and the family sits down together, chat about their respective day and each makes their own varieties of sandwiches. It is very chill…
im saying this in the most respectful way ever but shielding kids from things like alcohol, sex, naked bodies etc. will always be counter productive. learning to handle alcohol, learning about your body, learning that naked skin is a normal human thing, is important. censoring everything, telling your kid alcohol is evil and sex is evil and never show any skin is so harmful to kids. think about it for a moment please
I'm not completely sure about that. Europeans actually do drink a lot more than Americans. I think a difference is that especially the youth learns how to handle it better, so there's less problems with people going overboard, but the average alcohol consumption is significantly higher, and that's not very healthy either. When you completely shield children from it, they'll get drunk out of their minds as soon as it's allowed, but for many of us Europeans alcohol is perhaps too much just a normal part of daily life.
Romanian here. Children are going alone to school here, some even to kindergarten. It's not unusual to see small kids, 5-6 year old, walking alone. We used to play alone outside since we were the same age of 4-5 and people still let their children to pay outside. I've never heard of any kidnaping here beside the usual "stories" some adults used to tell to discourage us to leave the neighbourhood. Children go to cinema, to school, to cafeteria usually alone.
The children are allowed in restaurants and bars with their family members but I've not seen much in bars. I've let my 16 year old son taste alcohol to see how it is and even enjoy some fine drinks but with moderation and I don't encourage him to drink alone or with his friends. But keeping everything forbidden might develop an unhealthy curiosity. Better to find out sooner and learn the responsibility from us than drinking his minds pushed by entourage.
9:06 when it comes to exposing children to alcohol, it’s more about teaching them to enjoy it with a meal or snacks responsibly rather than allowing them to binge drink in secret while underage and get wasted to the point where they don’t remember the evening. As I grew up in Belgium, I had my 1st taste at 16, learned to take my time drinking while eating and now, I never feel the desire to drink all the time - only on social occasions and with family.
BTW: if there is something to read in your reaction video would you please be so kind and read it aloud for your viewers, ´cause for me it´s too small to get it. Thnx!
When I was little, I often wanted cucumber salad.
It was like candy to me, healthy candy
When I was little we ate pretty much anything and everything, and to this day, I never had any chain store coffee or food (by that I mean: Starbucks, McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, etc.). We often went into the mountains ( hiking not driving like they do today) to have a barbecue/picnic, and we'd eat grilled meats, but always combined with veggies, then we'd go harvesting in the woods and went home to have ice-cream ( either store bought soft-serve or home made by my godmother with the forest fruits we just brought home), and those were our summer weekends. If we were outside playing with the other kids, we'd just get whatever you could spread on a slice of bread, so we could run back out and eat it there LOL. The spreads were usually something veggie or combined with veggies. I'm not even gonna mention the amount of corn, watermelon, apples, plums and pretty much any orchard fruit we ate as kids.
@@m0t0b33 We've been to McDonald's or Burgerking but only 2 or 3 times a year. But the older I got, the less I wanted to go.
I haven't been there for anything for almost 5 years now.
My mother always cooked fresh and is quite talented and when we went to a fast food store it was only when we stopped on the freeway.
We don't have a car so we were only there with friends who had one.
I've never been to KFC or Dominos/Pizza hut
or others besides McDonald's and Burgerking.
I can't eat fruit because of allergies or just a little bit , so I'm more into vegetables and grains.
@@germanyhamburger5552 oh I'm from Romania, we don't get those "restaurants" all over the country, just in the big cities, and those are far away from where I live and grew up so... I traumatized and triggered a few Americans from my fb with that piece of info LOL.
@@m0t0b33 I think in Germany that only happens in a city with 500,000 residents.
Or on the highway between two nearby cities, but they don't really exist in small towns either. I live in a big city with 2mio residents and I think there are max 10 McDonalds here.
Radishes and Cumcumber are so good to be fair i eat Radishes like Chips its just so good 😍😍😍
omg me too... slice them up, show 'em a little bit of salt and go to town on them... and a beer afterwards..? Yum.
I live in Norway. When I was 15 my class visited local pow mass graves from ww2 and when I was 16 my class went to Poland to visit Auschwitz. You learn a lot more by visiting places rather than just reading in a book.
One who does not know the history is doomed to repeat it. One reason, why the US is still stuck in racism and social injustice and selfishism. Greetings from Germany
i would agree, if you don't mean by this, that germany (or any other country) has no racism or injustice problem. we sure have, way smaller than in the US maybe, but i think problems like that never disappear completly. too many dumb ppl nowadays ;)
@@somersaultcurse I think racism is everywhere, as it is a 'natural behaviour' to be afraid of the different. But we (as humans) should try to overcome this 'instinct' as far as possible. By learning to know 'the others', acceptance and empathy will grow and racism will start to disappear.... I think.
Racism also exists here in Germany
I find it crazy that 16 year olds are considered as „little children“. When i was 16 I began my apprenticeship as industial mechanic and earned my first money. Many friends of mine as well. I guess, in general, in Germany is a matureisher behaviour (I hope that word make sense) with 16 more expected than in the US?
It used to be normal in the UK up until the 70s to leave kids in their prams outside shops. We were drinking in pubs at 16, some kids looked older at 15.
Up until third world migrants started to flood in you mean.
About looking forward to drinking age in Germany, it is less hyped compared to the US I would say, mostly bc, if you are 14 and your parents allow it, you can already drink, if you are 16, you are allowed to buy the lighter drinks yourself and at 18 you are allowed to buy all kinds of Alcohol. But bc you can start drinking from the age of 14, I'd say many people don't really hype it up, bc they barely got into the age where alcohol has become a topic of interest and they can already engage with it. And it would be kinds weird to celebrate to be able to buy alcohol on your own, when you know you could drink it before as well. It is rather celebrated to turn 16 or 18 bc of FSK (Film and Video game age ratings), to finally buy those kind of media and legally engage with those
[edit: 15:00 she was talking about german Kindergarten, so you have to imagine 3-6/7 year old Kids going on field trips on puplic transportation with the educators]
I would add that being excited about turning 18 is also related to driving (I am Croatian /Italian) 😊
it so strange when you talk about the dark side of US history you only talk about slavery but you forget about what was done to the native Americans
If something bad happened in history and you don´t want it to happen again you have to teach the next generations what happened and how it happened. Otherwise you can´t be sure that it will happen again. That´s the reason why "Third Reich" and WWII is a very important topic in our schools.
Actually they only hide history because they want or repeat it or create their own narrative to fit their agenda... that's why there's this whole craziness going on in the US with racism and other stuff. Uninformed people are easier to manipulate. Do you know how many Americans think the only slaves that were out there were the black ones, and that the slave owners are/were exclusively white?
when it comes to alcohol in europe do remeber in most countries you can drink nearly anywhere and everywhere so keeping kids away from alcohol is kinda impossible. also most kids just learn to get used to the loud atmosphere associated with people having a good time.. i remeber many times as a kid just sleeping under a table or in a corner at a party when i got tired.. and basically learned to get used to sleep in noise... was good times and fun times!
and less social anxiety, better ability to sleep through loud noises... those are life skills LOL.
well, kids who turn 16 already have been drinking something at home.. my kids of 14 and 15 could try a glass of champagne or a glass of wine or beer at a family party. So they’re not really looking forward to turning 16 for that reason. Also, it’s not because they can drink alcohol that they”re trying to get drunk. We try to educate our children to use alcohol wisely. Of course there will be some kids who want to get drunk, but I don’t think that’s the majority.
I'm from Denmark and I'm 72 years old. As far as I remember I've only heard about a baby being kidnapped in Denmark 2-3-4 times .
we have mothers, who have dropped there older kids of school, go to the chain pub's, with children for coffee and breakfast, mothers meet up, then go shopping or something, thats around 9am in the morning in the UK. im north UK i cant speak for the south
The Uk pub culture is also a social meeting place, you dont have to drink, soft drinks, coffee or tea, no one looks at you, its normal
pshhh, when I was little, we often went out to bars/pubs with our parents, they'd drink their drinks, we'd drink juice or soda... and since that was a "delicacy" to us back then, we were happy to hang out with the grown ups and drink "rare" drinks.
German here... I once took my newborn son (can´t remember the exact age, but it was somewhere in his 1st year) to a pub/restaurant, to meet some friends, arriving there at around 8-9 PM. Some time into the evening, with my son sleeping in his buggy right next to our table, a random guest scolded me for having him there at this time of day... My only answer was: "I prefer to have him here with me than back home with his mom, who cares more about her online game than him!" That pretty much shut that person up!
I mean it makes sense!
Here in Blgaria you still can see parents with strollers or with small children to meet friends at restaurants in the evening. Especially in summer.
The kids she was talking about were kindergarten and daycare kids, so mainly between three and six years old. 15:56
In Bulgaria our chidren still go from kindergarden to a theater for ex. walking with 2 or 3 teachers for 30 children and no one is afraid of that even if they have to cross streets.
As a Dutch person I can tell you Kids and cold and rain is not a problem just give them some appropriate clothes and let him go outside to play. Kids will be hardened by the weather and don't really mind the weather at all. When I went to school for years I went on my bike day in day out for a total of 12 kilometers that's I believe about 7 miles to school and back, again no matter what the weather was It could rain, snow or even a big storm and I have walked multiple time the whole 12 kilometers against the wind with my bike beside me because there was too much wind to get on the bike itself and there where moments I even had to lay me bike down on the street because the wind was so strong it just blew it up in the air and I could hardly hang on to it. So Dutch kids are very strong and healthy because of this mentality.
Now that said no one will take a kid or a baby, first of all there are too many eyes on the kid no one would allow something to happen to a kid and because of the society as it is mentality wise it just doesn't happen and even someone who is mentally sick would think twice if he grew up in a society which will not tolerate this at all, my mother used to left me outside in the trolley while she went into a store. These days the stores are much bigger and some take the kids with them into the store but sometimes I still see multiple kids in trolleys outside a store even dogs are sitting next to the kids and the kids are talking and the dogs are playing with the kids so no it should not be a problem.
Yes, the same my childhood Northern Germany. I guees you also did not have much snow in winter, but when we had it sometimes , we loved to build an Iglo and were sitting and playing in it the whole day, till it became dark!
I’m from France 🇫🇷 and the Bitish 🇬🇧 make me laugh 😆! I love them for this 🥰🙌Humor! I’m from France 🇫🇷 and the Bitish Humor make me laugh 😆! I love them for this 🥰🙌! (Mr Bean was the guy at 20:10 before sleeping as a child)! 🤗🥺😞.
America doesn't have to go back in time to do the same thing again, it's still happening today but now YOU'RE expected to TIP the slaves so they get paid👍
And people don't take kids in England, last thing you want is to be locked up in a British nick with anything to do with hurting women or children on your record... You will get destroyed first day ,k.o.s
As a German, I think the mother offered all those cool food options as kind of a "treat", because she was leaving to spend some time on her own or with the partner.
And also, to kind of "celebrate" to have an evening with someone cool/nice babysitting you - if this makes sense (Sorry, my German would be much better :) !) !
I think it’s more common in the USA to hide bad history and risks from kids as long as possible, but in that way you are not learning how to handle these things. For example primary schools in the neighbourhood of a military graveyard there is mostly a tradition of adopting these grave by the kids of the school. These grave yards are from ww2 battles and because the relatives of these soldiers live far away the maintenance and attention to these grave are done by the local community.
We agree exactly! It does more harm than good in the long run hiding a bad past
In the US, a girl who is 18 years old, can be cast to make a porn movie with 3 or 4 dudes...but she can't get a beer. And if there's someone who deserves a cold beer, is that girl.
Lol this is true
I am from Denmark...No problem with that....At all....Watch Danish forrest kindergarden....
Kindergarten is pre-school in the US."Vorschule "is the year before school.Feli made a video about how the words are somehow reversed.
u can not go to bar with kids but u can buy a gun in every corner
To seperate Fact and fiction of History is importend to come over it. If you try to hide or play down what happend especialy if everyone else exectly knows whats up , it is done becouse of shame. The Cancle culture and all this stuff grow out of that shame. There are many unspoken things that wouldn´t need to be discussed if every one knows what is fact. I sometimes think but maybe it´s ignorant to do so, that Americans forgot over the Years, whatis fact becouse it was mixed with so much fiction. Stuff like, Slavery has nothing to do with Racism, The only reaseon why slaves are black is the distance between West africa and America. European ore Asian slaves simply didn´t survived the shipping but if it were cheaper back than all Slaves would be from any where else. To me it feals like americans avoid that and other arguments becouse it takes the wind out of any argumantation that you aren´t selfe responce to your present, and it doasn´t matter witch argument you bring to the " this is why " table. Who think that anyone would chouse the black slave if the white is cheaper still don´t understand the "this is why " table and more ovver don´t see that it stands in the doasn´t matter room.
hey,
watched a few vids of yours now and i would like to give you some constructive feedback, like we germans do :p
don't know your names, sry, but the girl is way to quiet most of the time - which, considering where you are from, is quite exceptional to be frank ;)
maybe adjust mic volume? please don't start screaming 24/7 like all other americans :D (and i don't know how it is called in english, but you should avoid to "nuschel" while speaking - basically eating/swallowing half of some words ... idk how to describe it better :D)
additionally, you can use the arrow keys to skip a few seconds ahead or back and the '.' and ',' key to go frame by frame.
if you pause to read, you should read out aload, so the viewer can stay on your pace.
if the viewer wants to read something, they can do it by themselves.
watchin someone just read, without much else going on, is boring content.
also, if you pause the video, you should skip back a few seconds (one "
Hayley is an amazing UA-camr. She makes a lot of videos based on her own personal experience. Most of them aren't completely uncritical.
Edit: yes, slavery was officially abolished in 1864 in the USA but segregation laws persisted well after 1960 in the USA, which were at least (!) a direct consequence of slavery. The USA has NEVER officially declared slavery to have been a crime against humanity, nor has there been ANY official recompense for the direct and indirect victims of slavery. But what is even more staggering are the numbers of indigenous people killed since effectively 1500 until 1900. The estimates of how many indigenous people lived in the area of what is now the USA in 1500 varies quite a lot. The lowest estimate (highly questionable) is around 3 million, a more reasonable estimate somewhere between 11 and 13 million, with a maximum estimate of 18 million.
In 1900 the total number of indigenous people in the USA had been reduced by vicious slaughter and reprisals down to less than 230 000. Over the course of four centuries, a total of well over 50 million indigenous people had been killed in the area of USA today, the vast number of which were women and children. Remember, at this time, the total population of Earth hovered between 2 and 3 billion total. So from a total percentage of Earth's population killed, the USA outstrip ALL previous atrocities, even beyond the devastating slaughter of the mongol hordes.
That this is not taught in US schools is devastating.
That is why Germany found it so essential to teach students about history, to remember it, and prevent it from happening again. We can't demand other countries hold themselves accountable for their history; we only demand it of ourselves. Acknowledgement of the past is the first step towards normalization. Whitewashing history only leads to festering pus in the wounds left after such atrocious acts.
I guess in most countries with a colonial past we have tried not to speak that much about the rude aspects of our history... although in recent years this has changed A LOT and many have begun to understand many things that were "sugar covered" as fairy tales until very recently, BUT because of this extreme ignorance about our past this has also given rise to perverse new "cover-up" strategies and new fairy tales based on "positive-discrimination" (like destroying evidence, monuments, documents, symbols generated during that "problematic" past)!!! This obtuse policy of trying to force our actual values on the past, is equally destructive and stupid as perpetuating the perspective from the "happy slave", the "compassionate statesman", or the "noble savage"... that is why it is always better to tell the whole story, even the not so nice parts! I say this quite responsible in my experience as an archaeologist and ethnohistorian
Germany was forced, especially by the US, to face the ugliness of the Third Reich and to be deeply ashamed of everything that Nazi Germany did and the pain it inflicted on people.
All the dark sides of Germany are discussed in history lessons and a visit to Dachau or any other concentration camp is almost obligatory when this chapter is discussed during history lessons.
In the US, on the other hand, most Americans have no idea what the US did to those Japanese that lived in America during WWII. The US has its own concentration camps but nobody is talking about that fact.
I'm a winter baby from Denmark, I slept outside in my stroller everyday all year round.
Actually she is talking about children of the age between 3-6 that you see as a group walking on the street or in the forest, ofcourse with Kindergarten guardians. I know this because i have two sons and at this age they had a beach day once a week , they were at least once a week outside of Kindergarten even thou they s huge playground the actual building Was big...wirh the food is the same they start here at Kindergarten with healthy food so kids grow up trying healthy food if they stick to it , i cant answer, my boys love healthy foods specially fresh fisch..so i can confirm some of her points...
About babies left outside in a stroller. This has been done a lot in Norway too ( and in our neighbouring countries.)
I think most parents will make sure they can see the stroller from where they are sitting, and keep an eye out there.
I think the bar culture and vibes is completely different in Germany, more like a traditional environment where the community gather together to drink beer like a large family and has been like that for millennia
In Denmark its really common to leave you kinds sleeping outside your home or in front of stores and cafes. I never heard of a kidnapping.
For some years now, it has been common practice for kindergartens to be "sugar-free".
No sweets, no sugared desserts and generally balanced meals. I think that makes a lot of difference. Of course, children will snack in private. But in daycare centers and schools, healthy meals are being offered. So children get used to the taste of vegetables right from the start.
Kids in a Kindergarten are around 5-6 years old.
Not in Germany. Kindergarten starts at the age of 3 here.
im from Belgium and i started drinking at the age of 12 with my parents and at 15 i went to bars with my friends and yes by the time i was 21 i bearly drank any alchohol anymore
I worry about the fantasy history that is taught in American schools. Understanding the struggle of progress is so important, it gives perspective and encourages appreciation of the variety of lifestyles that have had major roles in bringing us to here. If the history is not taught factually the lessons that should be learnt from history are lost and destined to be repeated.
As someone who went to school in America I wouldn't say it's "fantasy history" across the board, but the quality of history lessons can vary dramatically depending on what kind of teacher you happen to have
In Denmark, pretty much every parent would feel calm leaving a stroller outside a cafe.
Also when i was growing up in Copenhagen, which is our biggest city, me and my friends were running all over town by ourselves every hour of the day, and you always feel safe. You dont even think about something can happen to you.
Yea when you turn 16 here you are like yay I can finally drink and if you are the first one in your friend group you are the one who has to buy all the booze.
That being said, in Germany you only get beer and wine at that age so no strong spirits.
And yea usually by the time turn 21 you had your experiences. It’s not like people don’t drink anymore but the wild stuff happens around 18 when you leave our „highschools“.
15:30 she talks kindergarten kids in groups..... thats age 3-6
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
That explains why people still go out drinking after a blackout drunk night.
Its normal in Norway to let the kids sleep outside :)
I think the history thing is that usa as country doesn't take responsibility for all the crimes they did, always shows themselves as heros and rewrite history
Germany is a big country with different regions, and every region is different.
You can`t generalize German people and their habits.
You would never say that Florida has a lot in common with Texas.
Thank you for saying this. People do the same about the USA. Germany is the size of Texas. As an America I find it offensive when people make huge generalizations about my country as though all 330 million people are the same. I also would sound like an idiot if I made huge generalizations about Germany.
A Video that i can highly recommend to you is: "Germany: Low Crime, Clean Prisons, Lessons for America | Jeff Rosen | TEDxMountainViewHighSchool"
Most kidnapping isn't kidnapping,but a parent after divorce
Now that makes sense. Its just the same as most kinds of abuse has to do with family members or near friends, uncles .. whatever.
15:51 Kindergarten is for pre-school kids so they're 6-7 at most. Those are the kids she means, though during these outsourcing field trips there are usually at least two adult chaperones from the daycare.
Hayleys channel is really good, if you like to know it bit more about Germany, she does it pretty good, with putting a lot of hard work in the research.
Land of the free and brave kids
When I worked in the US about a decade back, my mind was blown when I found out about "Dry Counties"
Polish living in Ireland:
- living strollers outside: have not seen in either. I don't think anyone would be shocked to see it around a shop or coffee place
- kidnappings - in Poland (and i imagine also i rest of EU) is rare and if it happens it's nearly entirely cases where one parent takes the kid without/against will of other parent
- bars - normal in both PL and IE, though pub culture is way different - in PL is nearly entirely for young people (18-40), while in Ireland it's everyone and i feel perhaps mostly older folk. As kid it was always fun to sit at the bar - people behind the bar would joke with you and usually you would get some sips of lighter stuff like beer with syrup
- vegetables - dunno for Ireland, but in Poland during summer holiday in the country side we would go to fields and dig up stuff like carrots, radishes, ground cucumbers or kohlrabi and eat them as a snack. Pretty much everyone i know still remembers taste of such earth vegetables with bit of sand :) Also vegetables/fruits in Europe got taste - having moved to Ireland i feel their produces is generally tasteless, meanwhile americans coming here are awed how good everything is
- kindergarten kids - in Poland it's common sight during the day to see army of kids going somewhere with teachers. Nowdays they got a thing called walking snake & high-visibility vests so that they are visible and hold it and not wander off. The sight is both hilarious and adorable - a group of confused gnomes bumbling around google pics for "wąż spacerowy". I have yet to see that in Ireland - i guess it's becouse Ireland is nearly as car centric as US and pedestrian infrastructure is barely existent
- teaching about tragedies - in Poland since pretty much elementary schools you are flooded with news how many people and how died everywhere during wars.
KIndergarten is like preschool or day care in the US, the age is usually 3-6. Don´t know why but u mixed that up in the States. In Germany preschool is after the Kindergarten at the age of 5-6 and its kind of optional, u can also stay in the Kindergarten before elementary school (or Grundschule) starts. The age of children in elemtary school is usually 6 - 10.
Never seen the baby thing in the Netherlands
The colonial past was also "romanticized" at school, in the 50s and 60s.
Seeing babies outside a cafe or shop or especially the post office, used to be normal in the south of the Netherlands at least. Don't see it so much these days. Then again, we have all lot of SUV drivers these days as well.
I grew up in a small town in Germany and we were out and about biking when we were like 8 or 9. We drove to our friends in another part of the town with our bikes (or took the bus or tram) or to the nearest lake for a swim or something. We were taught to not go with strangers and we were familiar with all the places before we went on our own of course. I even went to school by foot three weeks after I got into first grade. I was six, my school was not really far away but I could go there with my friends without any adults. It was just normal. But nowadays even German parents tend to drive their kids everyhere. They learn to be independent way later then in my childhood in the 90s. Don't know where this came from within last 20-25 years??
German here. - Learning about the holocaust is mandatory in German schools grade 9 and 10, they want to teach kids „never again“.
But I think, once more people overdo it here. Kids grow up without national pride, and I don’t know if that’s too healthy. The only time this is ok is within sports, especially soccer world championship, then everyone would decorate with the German flag. But if you have a German flag regularly in your front yard - jeez, you must have nazi tendencies, don’t do that!
I‘ve lived in different countries as a kid. I remember standing in school age 15 together with my brother and seeing shocked faces from the other kids when we said, no, we‘re not proud to be German. We just aren’t, that’s not what we’re taught. And the national anthem is not sung at all during your time in school, let alone every morning.
We lived in the US when my kids were in primary school. My son‘s teacher was worried about his self esteem. I loved it, but I was very surprised. No teacher would care about the kids self esteem here, at least not that I‘ve ever experienced it.