Freedom for kids to move through the world on their own may be the key to the Netherlands’ top spot in childhood happiness.

Cool, calm Dutch moms seem to love the laid-back approach which the teachers assure them is the best for their kids. A Dutch friend, Maria, who lives in San Francisco with her husband and six-year ...

This is why Dutch kids are much happier than American children In the Netherlands, kids get chocolate sprinkles on their breakfast and early sex education Published: June 11, 2017 at 11:07 a.m. ET ...

The U.N. has rated Dutch children as the happiest in the world. There's surprising insight into why this might be in a new book from two expat moms raising their families in the Netherlands.

Dutch kids came out on top when compared with those in 29 of the world’s richest industrialized countries (the United States, by comparison, ranked a miserable 26th, just above Lithuania, Latvia ...

These Dutch kids are not being raised shrouded in cotton wool. They had started cycling alongside their parents from the age of 2 or 3 and by their tenth birthday many would be cycling solo to ...

The Happiest Kids in the World: Bringing Up Children the Dutch Way by Rina Mae Acosta and Michele Hutchison (Doubleday, £14.99) is out now. Parents will benefit ...