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In Switzerland it’s mandatory to let your kids go to and from school on their own from age 7 (I think, +/- 1 year) The alternative is called “elterntaxi” (mean

In Switzerland it’s mandatory to let your kids go to and from school on their own from age 7 (I think, +/- 1 year) The alternative is called “elterntaxi” (meaning parent taxi) and is very much frowned upon. So, every school morning, lunch, and afternoon, you have bunches of little kids walking on their own between their schools and their homes, wearing a special reflective jacket.

watwut 5y ago
Switzerland managed to figure out preschool/kindergarten system that literally puts even more limitations on mom then having kids at home.
- nix23 5y ago
  What is the limitation on "moms" here? And btw, why having a limitation on one parent?
  - watwut 5y ago
    You have to take kids to kindergaten twice and bring them back twice. The time while they are there needs to be used for cooking lunch. They are not there long enough to allow much else. It literally gives you program for whole day without freeing you for other activitities. Being full time with the kid is literally better for that parent, because at least you can structure day how it suits you. (There is benefit for kid itself in terms of socialization, but that is difderent topic) And I say moms because in Swiss it is moms who are expected to do it and forgo other activities while men are expected to go to work. Men are much less affected by above system.
    - nix23 5y ago
      >You have to take kids to kindergaten twice and bring them back twice. See that's exactly the mentality problem. My mum was working too, at lunchtime we made for example a little fire in the wood and exchanged the food our parent packed in, from spaghetti to sausages and so on, made our own snake-bread etc. You have to be really crazy to think your children's have a problem do stuff for them self for 1.5 hours. If it was too cold we eat outside, went back into the school asked the teacher if we can play flight simulator on the apple2's. There is no need that the state has to organize everything for you..children's need freedom too, true?

watwut 5y ago

Switzerland managed to figure out preschool/kindergarten system that literally puts even more limitations on mom then having kids at home.

nix23 5y ago
What is the limitation on "moms" here? And btw, why having a limitation on one parent?
- watwut 5y ago
  You have to take kids to kindergaten twice and bring them back twice. The time while they are there needs to be used for cooking lunch. They are not there long enough to allow much else. It literally gives you program for whole day without freeing you for other activitities. Being full time with the kid is literally better for that parent, because at least you can structure day how it suits you. (There is benefit for kid itself in terms of socialization, but that is difderent topic) And I say moms because in Swiss it is moms who are expected to do it and forgo other activities while men are expected to go to work. Men are much less affected by above system.
  - nix23 5y ago
    >You have to take kids to kindergaten twice and bring them back twice. See that's exactly the mentality problem. My mum was working too, at lunchtime we made for example a little fire in the wood and exchanged the food our parent packed in, from spaghetti to sausages and so on, made our own snake-bread etc. You have to be really crazy to think your children's have a problem do stuff for them self for 1.5 hours. If it was too cold we eat outside, went back into the school asked the teacher if we can play flight simulator on the apple2's. There is no need that the state has to organize everything for you..children's need freedom too, true?