On a vacation to France last year, my SO and remarked several times on how different the behaviours of children and adults in the playgrounds in cities and towns of France differed from their counterparts in Canada and the US.<p>The interaction in France reminded me much more of my parents and I than the modern parents of North America.<p>It&#x27;s hard to put a finger on exactly what it was but there was a lot more letting the kids climb on stuff, do &quot;dangerous&quot; things, work out their own problems, fight their own battles and basically run around having fun.