Why it’s time to call off the helicopters

NON-FICTION: Achtung Baby: The German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children, By Sara Zaske, Piatkus/Little Brown €19.85

‘I never planned on raising my children in a foreign country, and surely not in Germany, a place my ancestors fled many years ago,” says American journalist, blogger and writer, Sara Zaske.

Yet when her scientist husband got a job in a research institute in north-eastern Germany, that’s exactly what she ended up doing. Her daughter, Sophia, ...