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From ‘gestation’ to ‘gentle’: across Europe, why do we talk about parenting in English? | Olga Mecking

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Polish-Jewish paediatrician Henryk Goldzmit (Januszmit) was known for his revolutionary views on parenting.

His ideas sound like the gentle parenting philosophy that is now so popular today .

Some European experts even became famous in the US and the UK .

The Wonder Weeks , a translation of the Dutch parenting manual Oei , Ik Groei ! by the scientists Hetty van de Rijt and Frans Plooij , proved extremely popular on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 90s .

However, from Olga Mecking's experience, US and UK parenting ideas have a bigger sway in Europe than the other way around.

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