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[quote=Anonymous]I am French. Please don't romanticize European parenting. There are social expectations that children won't act rudely in public, so parents enforce behavior rules such that most kids appear relatively calm and well-mannered. What do you think it takes for such enforcement, people, hmm? Sometimes it's not the positive-only training that Americans like to think is the only ethical way of raising kids :-)
Same in Asia. My Japanese cousins were strictly brought up.

Also, ADHD and all other mental health disorders are not as recognized and catered to as here in the US. Adderall, the most efficient medication to treat ADHD, is banned in most countries in the world as a dangerous substance. My son has flown to Europe and Asia with his Adderall, but that's because US prescriptions in their original bottle are allowed for those some of these countries.

So kids with mental health disorders who cannot be trained to behave correctly in public... just don't go to the resorts that you visit, OP. And believe me, they're not well treated by the societies in which they live. There's a lot of guilting and shaming.

There's no secret. The expectations are different, the parenting is stricter, and the kids who cannot be compliant are often labeled as bad children.

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