I'm an American mom who lived in Prague for 2 years. Children in the US have far less freedom than Czech children.

Elizabeth J. Long reports:

I've spent the past two years in Prague, and it's been fascinating to observe some of the different approaches to parenting as compared to what I've encountered in the United States.

There's more:

Another difference I saw was that Czech parents seemed to have a higher threshold for acceptable risk-taking by their children.

Imagine that.