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The happiest kids in the world : how Dutch parents help their kids (and themselves) by doing less  Cover Image Book Book

The happiest kids in the world : how Dutch parents help their kids (and themselves) by doing less / Rina Mae Acosta, Michelle Hutchison.

Acosta, Rina Mae. (Author). Hutchison, Michelle. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 1615193901 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781615193905 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 245 pages : illustrations
  • Publisher: New York : Experiment, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- Discovering Dutchland -- Mothering the mother -- The real happiest babies on the block -- Joyful illiterate pre-schoolers -- Stress-free schooling -- On discipline -- Biking through the rain -- A childhood of freedom -- The simple life --Happy parents have happy kids -- It's all about the hagelslag -- Let's talk about sex -- Dutch teenagers don't rebel -- Conclusion: let's start a revolution -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 23.95
Subject: Child rearing > Netherlands.
Parent and child > Netherlands.
Netherlands.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Cookstown Branch PC 649.109492 Aco 31681020048633 NONFICPBK Available -

Rina Mae Acosta is a writer from California currently living in the Netherlands with her Dutch husband and two young sons. She founded the successful parenting blog Finding Dutchland.

Michele Hutchison is the 2020 International Booker Prize–winning translator of The Discomfort of Evening. She lived and worked in Britain before moving to Amsterdam in 2004 where she now lives with her husband and two children.


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