Parenting the German Way

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Sara Zaske, Let the Children Fight It Out; Parenting the German Way. Wall Street Journal, Dec 30, 3017.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/par ... en-fight-1514474042

Note:
(a) "When I lived in Berlin for nearly seven years, I was surprised at first to find that kindergartens and child-care centers (called 'kitas') were all about play, all the time."
(i) Remember that always, the first letter of a German noun is capitalized. Here it is anglicized, by having a lower-case k.
(ii) German-English dictionary:
* Kita (noun feminine; plural: Kitaen): "daycare facility for children"
https://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/ding ... =kita&iservice=

Wiktionary says it is shortened from Kindertagesstätte (noun feminine; plural: Kindertagesstätten), with the same meaning as Kita and Tagesstätte (noun feminine; plural: Tagesstätten).

(b) "That approach is echoed in a handbook by Margarete Blank-Mathieu for German instructors working with young children."

Margarete Blank-Mathieu is German, and wrote five or six books (in German).  "[F]or German instructors" might be helpful in identifying which book is alluded to, but I will not try.

(c) "Ms Zaske is the author of 'Achtung Baby' "
(i) Achtung
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achtung
(may refer to 1: "Achtung, a German word meaning 'attention[!; an order]' " * * * 3: "Achtung Baby, a 1991 album by U2")
(ii) When I googled the meaning of th4e title, Google returned the following at the top of results.

What Does 'Achtung baby' Mean? Why Did U2 Name of Its Albums That? Quora, Aug 28, 2015.
https://www.quora.com/What-does- ... -of-its-albums-that