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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are in Morocco on vacation with our tween kids, and are staying in nice (but not fancy) family-friendly riads and hotels. Essentially everyone else is European - mostly French, Spanish, and German, with occasional Belgians or Scandinavians (which I know because they exchange brief pleasantries with one another around the pool in excellent English).

They are all attractive (moms with 4 kids and older teens are wearing bikinis - and look great!), have between 2-4 extremely well-behaved children, and the kids are relatively quiet but smiling and happy. The kids entertain themselves (in the pool, reading, playing cards), don’t pester their parents (who are reading actual books, not playing with their phones), and there is little to no crying or whining, except some age-appropriate crying from a baby - who was immediately picked up lovingly and tended to by her teenaged sister. The kids eat dinner with excellent manners, clean their plate, and the whole family sits and talks animatedly for the ~1.5 hours it takes to be served dinner (which doesn’t start until 8 or 8:30 PM).

And then the perfect European families are all up bright and early looking fabulous (parents and kids), having just finished breakfast when we straggle in bleary eyed at 9 AM.

I am so fascinated and intimidated. Every single Euro-family appears so calm, happy, well-behaved, and well-mannered, and looks great, (without appearing to need sleep). No one ever seems frazzled or even appears to get annoyed. How is this possible?[/quote]

American parents are essentially lazy and give in to their children's every whim.  They believe in gentle parenting and never saying "no.". Disciplining children is hard and a parent has to have the desire to have well behaved children.  American children for the most part are feral brats with American parents encouraging their  deplorable behavior.[/quote]

Exactly this! As an American mom with twin teen boys it was rough in the beginning (and I’m sure will be again at various stages) but has paid dividends not buying in to this lack of discipline or lazy parenting. [/quote]

I actually love how your post perfectly exemplifies American Exceptionalism (although obviously on an individual basis for you).

:roll: [/quote]

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