5 THINGS THAT IMPRESS ME ABOUT GERMAN KIDS 🇩🇪

hey guys welcome back to my channel and if you're new here it is so great to have you I'm at tette a New Zealander living in the beautiful wine region of lower Franconia Germany so I'm a mother to three bilingual Multicultural children who were born and so far raised here in Germany and on my channel I like to talk a lot about raising my kids here so in this video today I am going to be sharing five things that really impress me about German kids and I just want to make it clear when I make videos like this I am not implying that all German kids are the same but I have noticed a little bit of a pattern and I am going to be focusing on certain characteristics or qualities in German children that I personally have noticed as a New Zealander living here so if this sounds like something you're interested in then please keep watching I'm going to be jumping into that really soon first I would like to give a huge thanks to today's sponsor out school out school is an incredible virtual 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out school class okay guys so let's jump into it this is in no particular order I have noticed that many German children are very emotionally intelligent and quite wise beyond their years so I've got a really good example of this there was an incident that happened just last weekend actually that made me think about this topic so last weekend my husband and I took our two boys age 3 and seven to a local skate park this was the first time they'd been to a skate park they thought it was amazing and my 7-year-old Mato he took his scooer and he was scooting up and down the little ramps and he was just having such a good time and at that skate park there were quite a lot of older children sort of aged between I would say maybe 10 and 13 some of them were on scooters some of them were on skateboards but anyway there was one one boy I would say he would have been about 12 or maybe 13 and he was on a scooter and he came down this quite steep ramp and he kind of lost his balance or something he was going super fast and he smashed into Mato the pole from The Boy Scooter just wept into Matteo's forehead and he screamed he had the biggest boil like big huge bump and bruising on his head I was in shock my husband Rob got up straight away and ran to Mato to see if he was okay and his Natural Instinct was to kind of tell off the boy and just say you know watch where you're going and the boy was shocked himself and he just ran off and he was nowhere to be seen and I felt a little bit sorry for the kid because it wasn't his fault but anyway all of the kids at the skate park that saw this happen raced over to us and they were so concerned about Mato and they were just asking if there was anything they could do to help a little girl came over and said do you want me to get you some ice there's a drink stand over there and I can go and get some and we said oh that would be amazing thank you so much and the kids were like crowding around and they were all just so concerned a boy came over and said you might need to take him to the doctor how is he feeling is he feeling dizzy is he confused I thought this was amazing coming from like an 11-year-old boy then another girl came over and asked Mato if he was okay and said oh I don't think it was on purpose the boy you know he lost control and it wasn't on purpose and we automatically felt really bad for the poor boy that smashed into Mato and so my husband said to the girl can you please find that boy and tell him that Mato is okay and we know it was just an accident and she said Okay and she ran off and she found the boy who was hiding and he came over to us which I thought was very brave and he shook his hand and he said I'm really sorry that was an accident and are you okay I could see that it took a lot for this boy to come over and build up enough courage to you know apologize and also to face Rob who had snapped at him Rob also said I'm sorry for telling you off I know it was an accident I just got a bit of a shock Rob said that was really nice of you to apologize we really appreciate it and Mato all of a sudden just kind of perked up and he felt really important that this cool you know older kid was you know shaking his hand and you know asking him if he was okay because the kids were so kind and caring it didn't put Mato off the skate park and I think he will give it another go in a couple of weeks so anyway Mato is fine now we kept an eye on him that whole afternoon in the next few days and he didn't have any headaches or confusion or anything like that it was just a little bit of a bump and we didn't end up taking him to the doctor we would have if it was any worse than that and if we noticed any symptoms but yeah I had to bring up that because I was just so impressed by these children and their level of emotional maturity and I think these children had just been raised really well okay so something else that really impresses me about German kids is that in general most German kids follow rules and they're pretty well behaved so obviously not all kids follow rules and you know kids are kids you know I don't expect kids to be perfect but I do feel as though in general many German kids are very good at following rules and I think this all goes back to the freedom and Independence German parents give their children because these children are taught really valuable life skills very early on they are trustworthy and confident and they realize you know I'm going to get Freedom if I follow the rules and they have sort of clipped onto that so I think that's really great so just say you're at a zebra Crossing you will see German kids like waiting until you see the little green man before they cross even if there's no cars coming they're not going to just scoot across the road they will wait they love to follow the rules German parents will say you can go to the playground on your own but you have to be back at this time it's so cute when some of the kids in our neighborhood come and play they will come to me first and they'll say my mom said that I have to be home in 1 hour and they make sure they follow the rules and so they'll play for a little while and they'll come back and say oh what time is it and I'll say oh you've got 10 minutes left and they'll say okay and then when I tell them that 1 hour is up then they will go with no fuss and oh I just think it's so cute and it just makes life so much easier when kids actually follow the rules I'm not saying my kids do all the time but I just feel like in general German kids they've kind of worked it out they get quite a bit of freedom but they have to follow certain rules something else that really impresses me about German kids is that I feel as though in general a lot of German kids are very just respectful and whenever I have German kids in my home and I have mentioned this before in another video but I love that they always take their shoes off and they always say thank you and please obviously you know bitter dunker if they want to drink they'll come up and ask me if they made a mess with the toys you know the Legos everywhere they will always clean up before they leave and there's just usually no issues at all when I have German kids coming to play at my place and I think it's just a sign of children who are raised really well and have parents with really strong morals and values and I've noticed this a lot with German children that just very respectful they've been raised like this and I think it's a very important quality to have something else that really impresses me about German children is the fact that I've noticed many German children are very curious and inquisitive for example just say I'm at the playground with my children quite often if a German child will hear me speaking English with my kids they will be really interested and they'll come up and they'll say oh you speak English and they will ask me questions where are you from they may try to speak to me themselves in English and try and practice the English that they know and they'll ask me questions like how long does it take to get to New Zealand and do they have supermarkets in New Zealand do they only speak English in New Zealand and things like that and I just think it's amazing that little kids are interested and curious about different countries and cultures maybe German kids are just not used to hearing the English language spoken which is why they're interested and want to you know ask questions about it but either way I just find really cute and just really cool that they are even interested in the fact that I'm speaking a different language to them you know I feel as though New Zealand kids they're just in their own little world and it wouldn't even occur to them to ask questions about somebody's language or culture and last but not least something else that really impresses me about German kids is the fact that many German kids are just very confident and very capable I think that kind of ties in a little bit with what I talked about with German parents sort of teaching their children really important valuable life skills very early on letting children take risks on the playground this is giving them the opportunity to develop their gross motor skills also many German parents will let their small children walk to the bakery to get some bread all by themselves this teaches them all sorts of skills you know Direction how to get to a certain Place how to talk confidently to somebody to order you know the bakery items how to handle the money when children are allowed to do things like this it just builds up their confidence so much you'll also see a lot of really small German kids riding bicycles without trainer wheels and I think that's amazing you'll see like three-year-olds fouryear olds just whizzing past on their bike and it's like oh my gosh their child is so small and they can ride a bike German parents know what their children are capable of they give them all sorts of opportunities to develop these skills they put trust in their children also the incident at the skate park those children were just so confident to come over and you know ask if mat was okay offered to get ice offered to help him in any way and it takes a lot of confidence to come up to a stranger to do that especially in a situation like that like a really kind of stressful situation and that little boy who could have easily been told off again for smashing into Mato came and you know walked over and actually apologized and I just think that took a lot of Bravery so many German children are just very confident and capable and obviously it has a lot to do with the way they are raised so guys I have come to the end of this video I really hope you enjoyed it before I go I just wanted to remind you if you are interested in checking out out school if you think this is something your child might be interested in then I will leave a link for where you 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