Moms of the Millennium

Parenting Book Cliff Notes: Achtung Baby

• Rosie the Red • Season 1 • Episode 3

Are German kids really that self-reliant? 🤔

Rosie and Sarah dive headfirst into the fascinating world of German parenting, inspired by Sara Zaske's book, Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children.

This week, the Millennial Moms unpack concepts that might make helicopter parents clutch their pearls: "free-range" kindergarten (even in the , the focus on risk-taking, and the famously direct, no-nonsense communication style (the German Art of the Straight Talk).

Get ready to ask yourself: Are we overscheduling our kids? Are we intervening too much? And could a little bit of Achtung! (Attention!) actually mean giving our kids more freedom? Rosie gives her perspective as an American living in Germany. It's an honest look at raising independent children, German style!