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Author Druckerman, Pamela.

Title Bringing up bébé : one American mother discovers the wisdom of French parenting / Pamela Druckerman.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Press, 2012.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  649.1 DRUCKERMAN    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  649.109 DRUCKERMAN    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  649.1094 DRU    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  649.1094 DRUCKERMAN    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  649.1094 DRUCKERMAN    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  649 DRUCKERMAN, PAMELA    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  649 DRU    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department  PRNT J649.1 D    DUE 08-30-23 Billed
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  649 DRU    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  649.1 DRU    Check Shelf

Description xviii, 284 pages ; 24 cm
Summary "The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children. When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent." French parenting isn't a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist they aren't doing anything special. Yet, the French children Druckerman knows sleep through the night at two or three months old while those of her American friends take a year or more. French kids eat well-rounded meals that are more likely to include braised leeks than chicken nuggets. And while her American friends spend their visits resolving spats between their kids, her French friends sip coffee while the kids play. Motherhood itself is a whole different experience in France. There's no role model, as there is in America, for the harried new mom with no life of her own. French mothers assume that even good parents aren't at the constant service of their children and that there's no need to feel guilty about this. They have an easy, calm authority with their kids that Druckerman can only envy. Of course, French parenting wouldn't be worth talking about if it produced robotic, joyless children. In fact, French kids are just as boisterous, curious, and creative as Americans. They're just far better behaved and more in command of themselves. While some American toddlers are getting Mandarin tutors and preliteracy training, French kids are-by design-toddling around and discovering the world at their own pace. With a notebook stashed in her diaper bag, Druckerman-a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal sets out to learn the secrets to raising a society of good little sleepers, gourmet eaters, and reasonably relaxed parents. She discovers that French parents are extremely strict about some things and strikingly permissive about others. And she realizes that to be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is. While finding her own firm "non", Druckerman discovers that children-including her own-are capable of feats she'd never imagined."--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-278) and index.
Subject Child rearing -- France.
Parent and child -- France.
Child rearing -- United States.
Parent and child -- United States.
ISBN 9781594203336 hardback $25.95
1594203334 hardback
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