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Honey, you shrunk the kids Mario Monti took time off from his duties as prime minister of Italy last week to moonlight as a child-rearing guru-a sort of transnational Dr. Spock. Speaking in Tokyo, he blamed the current euro crisis on bad parenting by Germany and France. Recalling their fiscal laxity in 2003, a time when he, as a member of the European Commission, had called for sanctions against Berlin and Paris, Monti said, "If the father and mother of the euro zone are violating the rules, you could not expect [countries such as] Greece to be compliant." Poor widdle Gweece!