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In reply to the discussion: Why American Kids Are Brats [View all]LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)it all boils down to ONE THING that American parents are all totally failing at, and someone makes money writing books about it. I really hate this. It's never just one little thing that we're all failing at, that they do so much better. France has paid maternity leave. France has healthcare. France has subsidized childcare. France has a set workweek with a mandatory minimum vacation time. France has good schools with longer mealtimes and healthy food. France has all kinds of things that make for less stress and more time spent being parents. France, in short, has a totally different culture.
It does nobody any good to print this nonsense about that one tiny thing that we're all doing wrong; all it does is add one more needless stress to already overstressed people. Teaching kids to say "Please" politely isn't going to help when the kids get sick, or never see their parents because they're always at work. Our whole culture has to change before we can catch up with France, not just one little thing.