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5 secrets to raise a well-behaved kid
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5 secrets to raise a well-behaved kid

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French Parents Don’t Know What They’re Doing, Either
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French Parents Don’t Know What They’re Doing, Either

Ever since the success of “Bringing Up Bébé” (2012), Pamela Druckerman’s incisive O.G. guide to family life à la française, the American parenting-industrial complex has insisted that French parents have it all figured out. French kids sleep through the night practically straight from birth. They eat leeks and beets and blue cheese, greeting guests at the door with kisses to the cheek and then disappearing to entertain themselves while their well-slept, boundary-conscious elders enjoy their cocktails. “French parenting is about the belief in a firm ‘no’ and that the parent’s answer is not up for debate,” Reader’s Digest claims. “The kids exist in the parents’ world, as opposed to the parents existing in the kids’ world,” Isabelle Bertolami, an “American mom in Paris/Aix,” asserts, in a Ti...