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Cover of Parenting (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Calliope Hummingbird / Stellula calliope - female feeding two chicks (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) While I am not agreeing to everything written in this article, there is much to learn from the facts of life, as presented here. I still teach my kids that it's not what they do, or what they achieve that makes them. They are who they are, no matter what.  Many kids raised in nice environments end up as rascals, criminals, and some kids raised in not nice environments end up being better, more educated. We do our job as parents, and that is where the thin line has to be drawn and adhered to. This article is more for parents, by the way. ----- BY PAMELA DRUCKERMAN I RECENTLY spent the afternoon with some Norwegians who are making a documentary about French child-rearing . Why would people in one of the world’s most successful countries care how anyone else raises kids? In Norway, “we have brats, child kings, and many of us ...

US CHILD WELFARE PARIS - America has some of the industrialised world's worst rates of infant mortality , teenage pregnancy and child poverty, even though it spends more per child than better-performing countries such as Switzerland, Japan and the Netherlands, a new survey indicates. In light of this, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a Paris-based watchdog of industrialised nations, has urged the United States to shift more of its public spending to its youngest children, under the age of six, to improve their health and educational performance. The report released on Tuesday, Doing Better for Children, marks the first time the OECD has reported on child well-being within its 30 member countries. The US spends an average of US$140,000 ($202,000) per child, well over the OECD average of $125,000. But this spending is skewed heavily toward older children between 12 and 17, the OECD survey showed. US spending on children under six, a period the OEC...