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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 519577" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Thanks for your insights/views. MWM - that bus ride and that kind of play in a playground just would not happen here!! From the earliest ages, any sort of "misbehaviour" in public is quite ferociously reprimanded. I do find the French too rigid and controlling of children, but that is also because I am British - we are traditionally more relaxed and informal with children and the French therefore think we are hopelessly permissive and uncaring about social mores... Who is "right"??</p><p> Buddy, I do share your worries about the teacher. She has the reputation of being particularly severe, though there are times when I have thought she also seems genuinely fond of J. No, not on about criticising me in front of him - but it doesn't surprise me, I'm afraid. Actually my instant thought was "I'm taking him out of this school at the end of the year!" Which is my ongoing debate... and part of me is tempted but perhaps the bigger part feels that this is now where J feels stable and secure and it has become very difficult to take him out of it because of that.</p><p>It is very hard to compare this tiny village in the countryside to a big metropolis in the States. How can I explain? There are about three hundred people who live here and outside, in the little windy streets, you see the same characters all the time - the old man who always seems to be out walking his dog, the old ladies who bustle about in the sunshine, talking to each other and going about their housework, the lady who sits outside her house watching the world go by; everyone knows each other, everyone has all the time in the world, if someone who doesn't live here comes here, they are instantly noticed (and we are not on the way to anywhere!). So, yes, I do feel basically okay about J going off on his own for a while - only thing that worries me is the road that goes round the village. J seems basically fairly aware of traffic but of course this cannot be relied on. </p><p>And actually... when I was a kid this was completely "normal". From a really young age, children would go off by themselves for hours at a stretch, playing in the woods, making dens, getting up to various adventures. No-one worried. I think it is sad kids don't have that any more, in the western world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 519577, member: 11227"] Thanks for your insights/views. MWM - that bus ride and that kind of play in a playground just would not happen here!! From the earliest ages, any sort of "misbehaviour" in public is quite ferociously reprimanded. I do find the French too rigid and controlling of children, but that is also because I am British - we are traditionally more relaxed and informal with children and the French therefore think we are hopelessly permissive and uncaring about social mores... Who is "right"?? Buddy, I do share your worries about the teacher. She has the reputation of being particularly severe, though there are times when I have thought she also seems genuinely fond of J. No, not on about criticising me in front of him - but it doesn't surprise me, I'm afraid. Actually my instant thought was "I'm taking him out of this school at the end of the year!" Which is my ongoing debate... and part of me is tempted but perhaps the bigger part feels that this is now where J feels stable and secure and it has become very difficult to take him out of it because of that. It is very hard to compare this tiny village in the countryside to a big metropolis in the States. How can I explain? There are about three hundred people who live here and outside, in the little windy streets, you see the same characters all the time - the old man who always seems to be out walking his dog, the old ladies who bustle about in the sunshine, talking to each other and going about their housework, the lady who sits outside her house watching the world go by; everyone knows each other, everyone has all the time in the world, if someone who doesn't live here comes here, they are instantly noticed (and we are not on the way to anywhere!). So, yes, I do feel basically okay about J going off on his own for a while - only thing that worries me is the road that goes round the village. J seems basically fairly aware of traffic but of course this cannot be relied on. And actually... when I was a kid this was completely "normal". From a really young age, children would go off by themselves for hours at a stretch, playing in the woods, making dens, getting up to various adventures. No-one worried. I think it is sad kids don't have that any more, in the western world. [/QUOTE]
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