Dear Neighbours/Neighbors,
It’s summertime, our windows are open, fresh air fills our homes and we are reminded, once again, just how closely together our houses were built. Doubtlessly, you have heard extremely loud, perhaps even blood-curdling screams coming from our apartment between 5:30 and 6pm several evenings a week.
“What on earth,” you have probably asked yourselves, “is that woman doing to her children?”

Nursery school, pre-school, kindergarten, babysitters and day cares.
Oh my.
This morning at work I was talking with a student who also has a four year-old who is in kindergarten (A German Kindergarten is like a North American pre-school for children ages 3 to 6) from 7:30 am to 1pm every day. My son, goes from roughly 8:30 to almost 4 from Monday to Thursday. On Fridays his Kindergarten closes at 3:30 and on the last Wednesday of every month at 1:30. The crazy schedule, though, is nothing compared to my worries that they let the kids run a little too wild …read more