As I was a very young little boy, I discovered a Bee on the window. It was so funny, this "bzzz".. My mother told my not to "play" with this bee, the bee will sting me. Like the most child's I've ignored my mother. Not even 10 seconds later the bee stinged me. 🐝😭 And little Daniel has learned his lesson 😉
I like almost all people from abroad who post their experiences on living in Germany, but in my view you are the most likeable one! You are just so natural, nice and fair, and you always look at all aspects.
Germans about New Zealand: "Aww, it is so nice. It is like Hobbingen. No, it IS Hobbingen." New Zealander about Germany: "Aww, it is so nice, like in a fairytale."
To be fair, many popular fairy tales do originate in Germany, or rather in medieval Europe (the brothers Grimm are one example), and with Germany managing to preserve so many medieval or early modern houses, castles, landscapes, it's easy to see the attraction =) Not just Germany tho, I've been to a number of french and czech towns and they, too, are truly scenic. Europe in general, despite the last century, has this cozy historic flair to it that I wouldn't wanna miss ^_^
Thank you for your always positive videos. I really enjoy them. Also nice to hear is your Kiwi accent. After +10 years in Germany you still haven't lost your accent.
I just got engaged to my German fiancé so it’s looking like I’m going to be here for a while. Great to hear about what I can look forward to for when we have kids 😃
You should add that handling scissors and knives, dealing with fire and such is part of German kindergarden education. We don't have pre-school. What children learn at that age is practical knowledge and socializing.
I can definitely agree to the languages... I was raised in South Africa, my dad spoke to us in German all the time, but i mostly spoke back in Afrikaans because I didn't realise how important it was for me to learn it (i didnt get any lessons though). When i moved to Germany last year, i could understand everyone (with exception of some words), but my Grammar is horrible. Reading was also okay as i had plenty of German childrens books. Luckily, my German gotten much better, but never will be as fluent as if i was raised here.
I think New Zealand and German parents are similar. What I've noticed in New Zealand is that children walk to school on their own, go to the shops on their own, riding their bikes around town. At the play centre really young children can use real tools like hammers. They learn baking and other food preparation even when they're toddlers.
No there are not. NZ parents just want to be as British style possible. The more the better, they will always Look up for that time when they will travel to the UK be there for 10 years move then to Australia for another 5 years, if the make there they will stay if not they will move back to NZ.
...on a subject I watched earlier today...I am so sorry about what you and your dauchter are going through with the german school system. I am quite old now but I vividly remember the difficuties I had as a child going to the Gymnasium here and the pressure I felt every single day to the point that I dreaded having to leave the house in the morning to go to school.I ended up leaving the Gymnasium, a decision I made as a 15 year-old that I never regreted. There are so many alternatives to a college degree, in fact, most people who graduated with me became financially very successful in life after learning a craft (Ausbildung). I ended up leaving Germany as a young adult and raised a family in Texas. I did that because I was curious, curious about other cultures and people and I feel that made me a rich person in a different way. Now I've been back for some years since my kids are grown and have their own lives. I guess what I'm trying to say is: Hang in there and dont become discouraged. You and your family are in a good place, I can say that now that I have seen the flip side of a free market society in the US. The middle class there is in a constant rat race, living from paycheck to paychek, barely maintaining their "status" of being middle class. And guess what...i estimate that more than 75% of them have a Bachelor's or even a Master's level education (for which most of them are still paying off their loans). Anyhow, I'm rambling...it just broke my heart to see you so disenchanted in this other video and I wanted to shout out to you "chin up", dont allow this obviously broken system to take away your awesome spirit! What you#re doing is bold and brave and you deseve to be recognized for that. Amen
Na ja, ich habe im Gymi in D keinen sonderlichen Druck verspürt. Meine Schulzeit in Australien war natürlich viel lockerer, außer wenn man wie ich Schuluniformweigerin war. Man hatte halt gemäß der britischen Tradition festgelegte Ansprüche. Umfassende Themen außerhalb des Commonwealths, gar kritische Auseinandersetzungen damit, gehörten nicht dazu. God s(h)ave the queen ;)! Ich bin froh, später in Deutschland in die Schule gegangen zu sein und meinen Abschluß gemacht zu haben.
I had the opposite of school experience. It was adviced by teachers i go to gynmasium, but my parents wantet me in the realschule, so i spend my time there. Was so bored i would read book douring lessons, never learned how to learn (because i did not need to learn), spend my free time dooing other peoples homework for money (needed for tampons, deo and thinks like that, jot provided by father) and it was sooo boring. Later, after i hade made a useless apprenticeship I made my abitur but had to pay for it and all. Sometimes teacher know what's best for students, sometimes they don't. (Best friend should have gone to hauptschule according to teachers, she made her abitur before me) it's easy to change from gymnasium to real- or regional school, but not the other way around.
We had after school activities back in elementary school we could pick and choose from and a few of them would probably be considered dangerous in other cultures too. I picked one where we would cook and bake and of course we were absolutely allowed and encouraged to use knives and put stuff in the oven on our own just with supervision. That kind of stuff really helps to raise very confident people who are very self sufficient as adults. Yeah kids get hurt too, my older brother stepped on a rusty nail while playing and building at one of these adventure playgrounds the kids can build themselves but a tetanus shot and keeping the wound clean and he was fine.
wow, boodo toys looks really great and pretty, this is the style we like too. We will get some of that. Nowadays there is really no need anymore to buy boring, not nice looking plastic toys. The higher price pays off cause the kids play longer with it and they are sturdy. Better less but good stuff.
I totally agree! It’s definitely worth spending a little bit extra on a few quality toys that are actually going to last rather than a whole bunch of cheap plastic toys that will break after a week.
I think that you are doing a wonderful job raising your bilingual kids. I confirm that it is easier, if it is the mother who is the expat. We are living in Germany, my wife is french, all our three kids are good bilingual speakers. The youngest one is just 18. We also know families where the father is the "stranger", it works also, but you need more effort like bilingual clubs etc. Here in Darmstadt, we have a french "mini-club", where french kids meet at different ages once a week.
I didn’t even skip the ad even though I probably won’t have kids for the next 10 years cause these houses look so cool !! 😄 I also love how observant you are !! Your parenting sounds beautiful and your family looks so wholesome 🥰
In Britain today one hardly ever sees children playing outside unless closely supervised by a bunch of mothers. When I grew up in the 1950s I roamed alone or with another boy all over our seaside town during the summer holidays. I was seven and mum had no qualms at all. She grew up in a large farming family with eight siblings. They all walked to and from school in the 1920s. Nowadays practically every primary school has a queue of cars morning and late afternoon with all the mothers driving their kids everywhere. I'm not even sure whether boys climb trees any more.
Yeah, I grew up in Australia, in a newly constructed suburb in Perth with bush still all around. We used to walk half an hour to school through the bush, that was the short cut. In our free time we would strive through the bush, play in the sandhills and the swamp fürther down the road of my house. Although we knew that we weren't allowed to do so, our parents didn't control every step of our "adventure". I have no idea what it is like in Australia these days, but here in Germany parents are everso overprotecting their kids. I'm a teacher at a secondary school in Bavaria, and I know what you mean when talking about car queues in front of schools - not only primary schools.
@@RTORC78 The paranoia over child safety has reached epic proportions especially in Anglo-Saxon countries. And it's the children who suffer by being placed on such a short leash much of the time. Parents who think like this imagine perverts are everywhere.
@@RTORC78 Well, I've got two children. And their safety is of course an issue. But I've raised them to be as independant as possible and to abide certain rules for their own safety. I never drove them to school, I taught them how to use the bus or tram. When my son was 6, he started football training. He rode his bike to the club but always together with two of his friends, never all alone. As soon as it started getting dark early in autumn, I took him and his freinds there by car of course. I also taught both of my kids how to cook and use electrical appliances like the dishwasher, washing machine, dryer as well as kitchen devices. By keeping one's children away from all supposed risks won't have them grow up to be independant adults. You have to teach them, make them aware of potential dangers and how to cope with them. But to each his own!
Sounds like how my Mum brought me up in NZ. Making toast, peeling and boiling veg at 5, making a Sunday Roast by 10 Too much emphasis was put on going overseas, learning, French, German, Latin, Japanese and Chinese to the detriment of learning Maori. Glad its changed. Where else can an indigenous culture survive but in its homeland. Sad back then that the only time NZers wanted to know anything Maori was when they were a Miss NZ, All Black or an other national team/group,/person travelling overseas and they wanted to look genuine
Be consistent about bilingualism. One parent, one language. There’s a threshold age between four and ten where the kids may start speaking in the majority language of their mates. My mum, an ex-pat Brit would react to me only when I spoke to her in English. I don’t even remember ever trying to speak to her in German. If you let it slip at that crucial age, they will eventually become competent English speakers, because of their head-start in being able to understand everything, but rarely will their English sound “native”. Sure I had to put in some work after communication with my mother had become rather... monosyllabic, but I grew up to be a balanced bilingual who could navigate both the German and English speaking world ‘natively’. It’s an all round life experience that couldn’t be weighed in gold. I cannot encourage you enough to support your kids in becoming balanced bilinguals, even if you have to ‘trick’ them occasionally by turning a deaf ear on them, when they speak the majority language.
Terrific video .. .. My own parents let us catch the public bus to school - Here, in LOS ANGELES! Can't do that any more .. .. Lovely to know you can still do that somewhere!!
Mit 8 (1968) habe ich mein Taschenmesser bekommen.Pfeil und Bogen gebaut,Haselnuss mit Schnur und Schilf mit Holunderstopel.Eine Steinschleuder.Ab in die Au und mit den Freunden "gejagt".Einen Staudamm im Bächlein gebaut.Maiskolben,Kraut und Erdäpfel gestohlen im Lagerfeuer mit Würsten "gekocht".Fußball gespielt.Mädchen waren nicht dabei.Die durften so was nicht machen.Die waren im Haus und im Garten.
Wondering if BOOBO TOYS are aming for the American market. They have a nices humble description of where Latvia (the country they are based in) are situated. I just can't belive that would be needed for any Europeans, sure not for Northern, Eastern or Central Europeans.
Thank you, it's always interesting to hear what people from other countries notice when they come to Germany! And I was wondering (since you mentioned traveling) - Have you had the opportunity to visit other areas of Germany (with / without your kids)? Because I feel like Germany is very diverse and your experience really depends on where you live. For example parents who raise their kids in a village might be more relaxed when it comes to letting their kids walk to school on their own, because there's less traffic and people know each other :) (That's just my guess.) I would love to see a video about your thoughts on that (differences and similarities you noticed in different parts of Germany)! Thank you for sharing your experience! May your family continue to be happy and healthy~
Yes I have traveled to many different parts of Germany and it’s always so fascinating to see the differences (even within Germany itself) I know that parenting here would look very different for someone raising their kids in a big booming city like Berlin for example.
In a city, the radius for children can be a little more limited, but kindergartens and primary schools are usually a maximum of 30 minutes' walk away for children. Therefore, they learn some important traffic rules already in kindergarten and can go to school alone within the first school year and if there is a playground nearby, they can often visit it alone as young school children. In some cities, the schools' playgrounds are also freely accessible in the afternoon or on the weekend. Between the ages of 10 and 11, our son and his friends rode their bicycles from our small town about 8 km to his grandparents in the next big city (2nd largest city in Germany). We were quite surprised when they called and told us that the boys had arrived "safely". The boys' comment: "Why are you surprised, it's just straight ahead and then turn right" (luckily they didn't take the autobahn, but the parallel road with the bike path;)) And our daughter, as a 4-5 year old, was alone at the supermarket with her bike and a friend; When we remembered the ban on crossing the street, the answer came: "But Mommy, I stayed on the Spielstrasse and the footpath" (Ouch, yes, the Spielstrasse turns into the footpath to the supermarket at one end.)
I just noticed how you refered to the previous village you lived at as 'your village' or 'our village'. That's an incredibly sweet sign of integration. Otherwise it would have been 'the village we lived in'. Love it. Oh boy, it's nice to see Luca/Luka?!? again. Why should I mind? To the contrary. I've been with your channel so many years that I was reminded of the birth of Mateo. I vicariously live family life through your wonderful family. Thank you so much for your insights, both your views as well as the insights into your life.
Have your kids ever experienced polish language from your in-laws? Their probably speak german with the Grandparents, but since you've been to Poland, hearing another language could have been interesting.
Unfortunately the kids don't speak Polish as they haven't had enough exposure to the language. They are showing interest in their Polish side though and love Polish songs and of course Polish food!
@@AntoinetteEmily I'm Polish, but, as your family, we live in Germany. My son in biligual, though English is his favourite language 🤣 Greetings from Dortmund 🦏
She has been to New Zealand, Germany, Austria, France, The Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Switzerland, China, Singapore, South Korea, (opps that's 14 not 15) The Asian countries were overnight stopovers on our way to NZ but we did get to do a little sightseeing. Slovenia, Slovakia, and Switzerland were just day trips but the rest were extended stays 😊
I think in Germany are too many helicopter parents who think that their whole life is only built around their children. It's not as 60 years ago when the children grew up without the pressure of their parents expectations. Anyway l left Germany 30 years ago and moved to Asia and l am happy to made the decision....
Watching videos like this one it is really hard to understand the anti-immigrant sentiments one comes across from time to time. Boggles the mind. It´s beautiful when cultures meet (and inevitable that they do).
I would have love to be there my fear for blacks is racism, I can't stand it for my self talk more of my innocent little daughters I have shown love all my life.
Yes, there is racism in Germany. But there are also a lot of Anti-racists. People who fight against it. You will not often be exposed to it in official places. But I can't promise you will never have racist experiences. In the German speaking part of Europe we are all raised knowing that there is a racist part in every human being. That we are to be aware of and acknowledge it. A true Anti-racist would never say "I'm not a racist." We say "I try my best to not be racist."
U are such a beautiful soul, I will not and never risk my kids to pass through such, my daughters are priceless and sweet, I rather stay for them to have a good life dear.. Very intelligent and welcoming kids I have I won't want any society to mess up their mind for me.. My girls are my best friends and they are very friendly I have always tot them how to welcome anyone who come around them and love people we are all human. No animals in any skin color Thanks a million.
I work as an educator for children from 6 month to 5 years. The parents go to German language classes (mostly the mothers) and we care for the children during this time. So I work only with children from different parts of the world. Mostly from Africa and the Middle East. But also from South America and East Asia and other European countries. No, society will not influence your children. On the contrary, there is so much diversity that children do not even see race anymore. All are human beings. There are so many mixed couples that we do not even see it as something special.
Thank u very much sist, I am a social worker, I actually work with children with disabilities like autism.. I have masters in social works also,.. I still want to do another masters in health care. I don't know if I can get a school for that. Trust me I am very grateful for all ur reply thanks alot.
I don't get it. Are the americans more criminal and aggressive by nature? In Germany we had 245 homicides last year compared to more than 6.000 in the USA.
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I also love how German parents are much more relaxed on letting children take risks!
It took me awhile to get used to this concept but I do think it’s great.
As I was a very young little boy, I discovered a Bee on the window.
It was so funny, this "bzzz"..
My mother told my not to "play" with this bee, the bee will sting me.
Like the most child's I've ignored my mother.
Not even 10 seconds later the bee stinged me. 🐝😭
And little Daniel has learned his lesson 😉
I like almost all people from abroad who post their experiences on living in Germany, but in my view you are the most likeable one! You are just so natural, nice and fair, and you always look at all aspects.
Thank you so much for your kind words 💗
I agree !!
Germans about New Zealand: "Aww, it is so nice. It is like Hobbingen. No, it IS Hobbingen."
New Zealander about Germany: "Aww, it is so nice, like in a fairytale."
tale
To be fair, many popular fairy tales do originate in Germany, or rather in medieval Europe (the brothers Grimm are one example), and with Germany managing to preserve so many medieval or early modern houses, castles, landscapes, it's easy to see the attraction =)
Not just Germany tho, I've been to a number of french and czech towns and they, too, are truly scenic.
Europe in general, despite the last century, has this cozy historic flair to it that I wouldn't wanna miss ^_^
Thank you for your always positive videos. I really enjoy them. Also nice to hear is your Kiwi accent. After +10 years in Germany you still haven't lost your accent.
Thank you! You can take the girl out of New Zealand but you can never take the New Zealand out of the girl 😉
I just got engaged to my German fiancé so it’s looking like I’m going to be here for a while. Great to hear about what I can look forward to for when we have kids 😃
Congratulations on your engagement! I see you also have a youtube channel. I just subscribed!
@@AntoinetteEmily wow what an honor! Thanks very much 😃
You should add that handling scissors and knives, dealing with fire and such is part of German kindergarden education. We don't have pre-school. What children learn at that age is practical knowledge and socializing.
I can definitely agree to the languages... I was raised in South Africa, my dad spoke to us in German all the time, but i mostly spoke back in Afrikaans because I didn't realise how important it was for me to learn it (i didnt get any lessons though). When i moved to Germany last year, i could understand everyone (with exception of some words), but my Grammar is horrible. Reading was also okay as i had plenty of German childrens books. Luckily, my German gotten much better, but never will be as fluent as if i was raised here.
Wirklich schön bei Euch!
I think New Zealand and German parents are similar. What I've noticed in New Zealand is that children walk to school on their own, go to the shops on their own, riding their bikes around town. At the play centre really young children can use real tools like hammers. They learn baking and other food preparation even when they're toddlers.
No there are not. NZ parents just want to be as British style possible. The more the better, they will always Look up for that time when they will travel to the UK be there for 10 years move then to Australia for another 5 years, if the make there they will stay if not they will move back to NZ.
...on a subject I watched earlier today...I am so sorry about what you and your dauchter are going through with the german school system. I am quite old now but I vividly remember the difficuties I had as a child going to the Gymnasium here and the pressure I felt every single day to the point that I dreaded having to leave the house in the morning to go to school.I ended up leaving the Gymnasium, a decision I made as a 15 year-old that I never regreted. There are so many alternatives to a college degree, in fact, most people who graduated with me became financially very successful in life after learning a craft (Ausbildung). I ended up leaving Germany as a young adult and raised a family in Texas. I did that because I was curious, curious about other cultures and people and I feel that made me a rich person in a different way. Now I've been back for some years since my kids are grown and have their own lives. I guess what I'm trying to say is: Hang in there and dont become discouraged. You and your family are in a good place, I can say that now that I have seen the flip side of a free market society in the US. The middle class there is in a constant rat race, living from paycheck to paychek, barely maintaining their "status" of being middle class. And guess what...i estimate that more than 75% of them have a Bachelor's or even a Master's level education (for which most of them are still paying off their loans). Anyhow, I'm rambling...it just broke my heart to see you so disenchanted in this other video and I wanted to shout out to you "chin up", dont allow this obviously broken system to take away your awesome spirit! What you#re doing is bold and brave and you deseve to be recognized for that. Amen
Thanks so much for your encouragement, I really appreciate it, and thanks for sharing your amazing story!
Na ja, ich habe im Gymi in D keinen sonderlichen Druck verspürt. Meine Schulzeit in Australien war natürlich viel lockerer, außer wenn man wie ich Schuluniformweigerin war. Man hatte halt gemäß der britischen Tradition festgelegte Ansprüche. Umfassende Themen außerhalb des Commonwealths, gar kritische Auseinandersetzungen damit, gehörten nicht dazu. God s(h)ave the queen ;)! Ich bin froh, später in Deutschland in die Schule gegangen zu sein und meinen Abschluß gemacht zu haben.
I had the opposite of school experience. It was adviced by teachers i go to gynmasium, but my parents wantet me in the realschule, so i spend my time there. Was so bored i would read book douring lessons, never learned how to learn (because i did not need to learn), spend my free time dooing other peoples homework for money (needed for tampons, deo and thinks like that, jot provided by father) and it was sooo boring. Later, after i hade made a useless apprenticeship I made my abitur but had to pay for it and all. Sometimes teacher know what's best for students, sometimes they don't. (Best friend should have gone to hauptschule according to teachers, she made her abitur before me) it's easy to change from gymnasium to real- or regional school, but not the other way around.
We had after school activities back in elementary school we could pick and choose from and a few of them would probably be considered dangerous in other cultures too. I picked one where we would cook and bake and of course we were absolutely allowed and encouraged to use knives and put stuff in the oven on our own just with supervision. That kind of stuff really helps to raise very confident people who are very self sufficient as adults. Yeah kids get hurt too, my older brother stepped on a rusty nail while playing and building at one of these adventure playgrounds the kids can build themselves but a tetanus shot and keeping the wound clean and he was fine.
I love Luca's appearances half way through your videos
Wow..such positive vibes....u r doing a great job
wow, boodo toys looks really great and pretty, this is the style we like too. We will get some of that. Nowadays there is really no need anymore to buy boring, not nice looking plastic toys. The higher price pays off cause the kids play longer with it and they are sturdy. Better less but good stuff.
I totally agree! It’s definitely worth spending a little bit extra on a few quality toys that are actually going to last rather than a whole bunch of cheap plastic toys that will break after a week.
I think that you are doing a wonderful job raising your bilingual kids. I confirm that it is easier, if it is the mother who is the expat. We are living in Germany, my wife is french, all our three kids are good bilingual speakers. The youngest one is just 18. We also know families where the father is the "stranger", it works also, but you need more effort like bilingual clubs etc. Here in Darmstadt, we have a french "mini-club", where french kids meet at different ages once a week.
I didn’t even skip the ad even though I probably won’t have kids for the next 10 years cause these houses look so cool !! 😄
I also love how observant you are !! Your parenting sounds beautiful and your family looks so wholesome 🥰
I really missed you got one more child! Congrats to the addition! What I nice surprise!
2:54 you must do it like Bees, fly from flower to flower and in the end you get honey!
In Britain today one hardly ever sees children playing outside unless closely supervised by a bunch of mothers. When I grew up in the 1950s I roamed alone or with another boy all over our seaside town during the summer holidays. I was seven and mum had no qualms at all. She grew up in a large farming family with eight siblings. They all walked to and from school in the 1920s. Nowadays practically every primary school has a queue of cars morning and late afternoon with all the mothers driving their kids everywhere. I'm not even sure whether boys climb trees any more.
Sounds like you had a great childhood. What great memories to look back on.
Yeah, I grew up in Australia, in a newly constructed suburb in Perth with bush still all around. We used to walk half an hour to school through the bush, that was the short cut. In our free time we would strive through the bush, play in the sandhills and the swamp fürther down the road of my house. Although we knew that we weren't allowed to do so, our parents didn't control every step of our "adventure".
I have no idea what it is like in Australia these days, but here in Germany parents are everso overprotecting their kids. I'm a teacher at a secondary school in Bavaria, and I know what you mean when talking about car queues in front of schools - not only primary schools.
Do you have children? It sounds like you don’t have a clue about current child safety that parents worry about.
@@RTORC78 The paranoia over child safety has reached epic proportions especially in Anglo-Saxon countries. And it's the children who suffer by being placed on such a short leash much of the time. Parents who think like this imagine perverts are everywhere.
@@RTORC78 Well, I've got two children. And their safety is of course an issue. But I've raised them to be as independant as possible and to abide certain rules for their own safety. I never drove them to school, I taught them how to use the bus or tram. When my son was 6, he started football training. He rode his bike to the club but always together with two of his friends, never all alone. As soon as it started getting dark early in autumn, I took him and his freinds there by car of course.
I also taught both of my kids how to cook and use electrical appliances like the dishwasher, washing machine, dryer as well as kitchen devices. By keeping one's children away from all supposed risks won't have them grow up to be independant adults. You have to teach them, make them aware of potential dangers and how to cope with them. But to each his own!
See you point, in Germany you are much more exposed to English than you would be to German in New Zealand.
Yes, most Germans speak English but I don't know many New Zealanders who speak German.
Great video clips of the area, family and fun
Sounds like how my Mum brought me up in NZ. Making toast, peeling and boiling veg at 5, making a Sunday Roast by 10
Too much emphasis was put on going overseas, learning, French, German, Latin, Japanese and Chinese to the detriment of learning Maori. Glad its changed. Where else can an indigenous culture survive but in its homeland. Sad back then that the only time NZers wanted to know anything Maori was when they were a Miss NZ, All Black or an other national team/group,/person travelling overseas and they wanted to look genuine
Enjoy your videos and seeing cute Luca
Feminine and professional; well done!
You do it well to combine the positive sites of both growning philosophies.
Oh btw. Is this video a bit older or do your hair growing so quick?
No, my hair didn't grow back that quick, this was filmed about a month ago. You will see my new hairstyle in the next video 😊
Be consistent about bilingualism. One parent, one language. There’s a threshold age between four and ten where the kids may start speaking in the majority language of their mates. My mum, an ex-pat Brit would react to me only when I spoke to her in English. I don’t even remember ever trying to speak to her in German. If you let it slip at that crucial age, they will eventually become competent English speakers, because of their head-start in being able to understand everything, but rarely will their English sound “native”. Sure I had to put in some work after communication with my mother had become rather... monosyllabic, but I grew up to be a balanced bilingual who could navigate both the German and English speaking world ‘natively’. It’s an all round life experience that couldn’t be weighed in gold. I cannot encourage you enough to support your kids in becoming balanced bilinguals, even if you have to ‘trick’ them occasionally by turning a deaf ear on them, when they speak the majority language.
Tolles Video! Vielen Dank!
Danke!
Your accent is very interesting. I had never heard anyone from New Zealand speak before.
This is a sanitized NZ accent
@@thomasschumacher5362 isn’t it called kiwi?
@@thomasschumacher5362 sanatised?
Excellent video!!
Very nice ! That toy is awesome as well.
Terrific video .. .. My own parents let us catch the public bus to school - Here, in LOS ANGELES! Can't do that any more .. .. Lovely to know you can still do that somewhere!!
Love your video, I was born there and grew up in kitzingen , now I live in Florida 😊
Mit 8 (1968) habe ich mein Taschenmesser bekommen.Pfeil und Bogen gebaut,Haselnuss mit Schnur und Schilf mit Holunderstopel.Eine Steinschleuder.Ab in die Au und mit den Freunden "gejagt".Einen Staudamm im Bächlein gebaut.Maiskolben,Kraut und Erdäpfel gestohlen im Lagerfeuer mit Würsten "gekocht".Fußball gespielt.Mädchen waren nicht dabei.Die durften so was nicht machen.Die waren im Haus und im Garten.
Your little one is sooo cute ......
Wondering if BOOBO TOYS are aming for the American market. They have a nices humble description of where Latvia (the country they are based in) are situated. I just can't belive that would be needed for any Europeans, sure not for Northern, Eastern or Central Europeans.
Aww, cute baby
Thank you, it's always interesting to hear what people from other countries notice when they come to Germany! And I was wondering (since you mentioned traveling) - Have you had the opportunity to visit other areas of Germany (with / without your kids)? Because I feel like Germany is very diverse and your experience really depends on where you live. For example parents who raise their kids in a village might be more relaxed when it comes to letting their kids walk to school on their own, because there's less traffic and people know each other :) (That's just my guess.) I would love to see a video about your thoughts on that (differences and similarities you noticed in different parts of Germany)! Thank you for sharing your experience! May your family continue to be happy and healthy~
Yes I have traveled to many different parts of Germany and it’s always so fascinating to see the differences (even within Germany itself) I know that parenting here would look very different for someone raising their kids in a big booming city like Berlin for example.
In a city, the radius for children can be a little more limited, but kindergartens and primary schools are usually a maximum of 30 minutes' walk away for children.
Therefore, they learn some important traffic rules already in kindergarten and can go to school alone within the first school year and if there is a playground nearby, they can often visit it alone as young school children. In some cities, the schools' playgrounds are also freely accessible in the afternoon or on the weekend.
Between the ages of 10 and 11, our son and his friends rode their bicycles from our small town about 8 km to his grandparents in the next big city (2nd largest city in Germany). We were quite surprised when they called and told us that the boys had arrived "safely". The boys' comment: "Why are you surprised, it's just straight ahead and then turn right" (luckily they didn't take the autobahn, but the parallel road with the bike path;))
And our daughter, as a 4-5 year old, was alone at the supermarket with her bike and a friend; When we remembered the ban on crossing the street, the answer came: "But Mommy, I stayed on the Spielstrasse and the footpath" (Ouch, yes, the Spielstrasse turns into the footpath to the supermarket at one end.)
I just noticed how you refered to the previous village you lived at as 'your village' or 'our village'.
That's an incredibly sweet sign of integration.
Otherwise it would have been 'the village we lived in'.
Love it.
Oh boy, it's nice to see Luca/Luka?!? again. Why should I mind?
To the contrary. I've been with your channel so many years that I was reminded of the birth of Mateo. I vicariously live family life through your wonderful family.
Thank you so much for your insights, both your views as well as the insights into your life.
Very nice video! :)
Have your kids ever experienced polish language from your in-laws? Their probably speak german with the Grandparents, but since you've been to Poland, hearing another language could have been interesting.
Unfortunately the kids don't speak Polish as they haven't had enough exposure to the language. They are showing interest in their Polish side though and love Polish songs and of course Polish food!
@@AntoinetteEmily I'm Polish, but, as your family, we live in Germany. My son in biligual, though English is his favourite language 🤣
Greetings from Dortmund 🦏
Can you explain your recycling and do they have composts spaces in your yard and what heating do you use. Do you have a washer and dryer fir clothes?
my friend told me education in germany is affordable and nice atmosphere even 4 asian foreigner. is that true?
@Luna Nyx college free too? 😶
@@rahmansetiawan6052 Yes
Mehrsprachig aufzuwachsen ist wirklich toll. Kannst du nur englisch sprechen ? Oder auch deutsch ?
Ich spreche auch Deutsch (mit Kiwi-Akzent😂)
@@AntoinetteEmily sure that is charming 🥰
The area you live in is really very beautiful! Did you think about living in NZ in the (far?) future with your family? Or is this out of the question?
Thank you! We are keeping our options open so moving to NZ someday is not out of the question at all.
Great!
Where did you get your shirt from? 😍
It’s from an online shop called Shein but unfortunately they are no longer selling this particular one.
@@AntoinetteEmily oh what a pity :(
Wow to which countries has Emilia been? Or do you consider driving through a country means having been in that country?
She has been to New Zealand, Germany, Austria, France, The Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Switzerland, China, Singapore, South Korea, (opps that's 14 not 15) The Asian countries were overnight stopovers on our way to NZ but we did get to do a little sightseeing. Slovenia, Slovakia, and Switzerland were just day trips but the rest were extended stays 😊
Next time I would choose only a Australian/new Zealand woman for marriage.
"Messer, Schere, Feuer, Licht, sind für kleine Kinder nicht." unless someone is watching, naturally.
Oh this looks like it was made before the new hairstyle.
Yes it was 😊
If kids learn how to climb a tree, they won't fall down (at least I didn't... Not sure if i would fall down today)
I think in Germany are too many helicopter parents who think that their whole life is only built around their children. It's not as 60 years ago when the children grew up without the pressure of their parents expectations. Anyway l left Germany 30 years ago and moved to Asia and l am happy to made the decision....
Deutschland is wanderbar
Watching videos like this one it is really hard to understand the anti-immigrant sentiments one comes across from time to time. Boggles the mind.
It´s beautiful when cultures meet (and inevitable that they do).
Well atleast you got free health care here
Well growing up as a german child I can say that my parents where not relaxed AT ALL 😂 They were the typical helicopter parents 🙊
I'm sure there are many helicopter parents in Germany too but many are the opposite.
Das ist sehr traurig und ich wünsche dir von Herzen, daß du das hinter dir lassen kannst für ein unbeschwertes
und freies Leben!🌻
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I would have love to be there my fear for blacks is racism, I can't stand it for my self talk more of my innocent little daughters I have shown love all my life.
Yes, there is racism in Germany. But there are also a lot of Anti-racists. People who fight against it. You will not often be exposed to it in official places. But I can't promise you will never have racist experiences.
In the German speaking part of Europe we are all raised knowing that there is a racist part in every human being. That we are to be aware of and acknowledge it. A true Anti-racist would never say "I'm not a racist." We say "I try my best to not be racist."
U are such a beautiful soul, I will not and never risk my kids to pass through such, my daughters are priceless and sweet, I rather stay for them to have a good life dear.. Very intelligent and welcoming kids I have I won't want any society to mess up their mind for me.. My girls are my best friends and they are very friendly I have always tot them how to welcome anyone who come around them and love people we are all human. No animals in any skin color Thanks a million.
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I work as an educator for children from 6 month to 5 years. The parents go to German language classes (mostly the mothers) and we care for the children during this time. So I work only with children from different parts of the world. Mostly from Africa and the Middle East. But also from South America and East Asia and other European countries.
No, society will not influence your children. On the contrary, there is so much diversity that children do not even see race anymore. All are human beings. There are so many mixed couples that we do not even see it as something special.
Thank u very much sist, I am a social worker, I actually work with children with disabilities like autism.. I have masters in social works also,.. I still want to do another masters in health care. I don't know if I can get a school for that. Trust me I am very grateful for all ur reply thanks alot.
Also in America so much helecopter cant let there children walk to school by themeselves young because danger of creepy person.
I don't get it. Are the americans more criminal and aggressive by nature? In Germany we had 245 homicides last year compared to more than 6.000 in the USA.