Raising Future Adults

Shortly after I learned I was pregnant with my second child while stationed in Germany, we finally got into quarters (aka military housing). This was like suddenly being middle class overnight after years of poverty, in part because the quarters were really nice. The kitchen was fantastic and the design of the apartment was kind of the best of both worlds from American residential design and German residential design. We had amazingly cool German windows of a sort I have never seen in the US that could be opened up wide like a door or tilted in slightly to let in a breeze over the top of the window while remaining secured and keeping out the weather. We also had screens to keep out the flies, something German apartments seemed to all lack at that time. Germans routinely sun their feather beds by hanging them out the window, which you can't do if there are screens, but this means opening the window to get a cross breeze when it's warm also lets in flying bugs. Opening the wi...