“She'll thank you when she's thirty and can still fit into her high school jeans.” — Pamela Druckerman High school Copy Share Image
My husband is so upset by President Trump's scapegoating of immigrants and Muslims, he refuses to even visit the United States. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Babies aren't savages. Toddlers understand language long before they can talk. — Pamela Druckerman Babies Copy Share Image
Every time I pass a cafe, I imagine it being stormed by men with Kalashnikovs. — Pamela Druckerman Being Copy Share Image
The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality. — Pamela Druckerman Balance Copy Share Image
“But in real life, the ideal Parisian woman is calm, discreet, a bit remote, and extremely decisive.” — Pamela Druckerman Life Copy Share Image
Parisians won't admit that they go to the gym, let alone that they're scared of terrorists. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Eating among the French certainly affected me. After a few years here, I gave up most of my selective food habits. — Pamela Druckerman Eating Copy Share Image
I'm not an early adopter. I'll only start wearing new styles of clothing once they're practically out of date, and I won't… — Pamela Druckerman Coffee Copy Share Image
While I love walking past those beautifully lit bookstores in my neighborhood, what I mostly buy there are blank notebooks and last-minute… — Pamela Druckerman Bookstores Copy Share Image
Practically every time I speak up at a school conference, a political event, or my apartment building association's annual meeting, I'm met… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
As an American married to an Englishman and living in France, I've spent much of my adult life trying to decode the… — Pamela Druckerman Adult life Copy Share Image
It's fine to discuss money in France, as long as you're complaining that you don't have enough, or boasting about getting a… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
I gradually understood why European mothers aren't in perpetual panic about their work-life balance and don't write books about how executive moms… — Pamela Druckerman Balance Copy Share Image
I hear people in their 20s describe the 40s as a far-off decade of too-late, when they'll regret things that they haven't… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
If you had asked me what I wanted when I was 12 years old, I probably would have said, 'To marry a… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
We Anglophones have reasons for adopting strange diets. Increasingly, we live alone. We have an unprecedented choice of foods, and we're not… — Pamela Druckerman Alone Copy Share Image
“French moms often ask me where I plan to deliver, but never how. They don’t seem to care. In France, the way… — Pamela Druckerman Birth Copy Share Image
Early childhood offerings vary, but everywhere in Europe and in Canada, they're far more generous than in the United States. Ukrainian dads… — Pamela Druckerman Change Copy Share Image
“When I ask French parents what they most want for their children, they say things like "to feel comfortable in their own… — Pamela Druckerman Boundaries Copy Share Image
Unlike the time sink of binge-watching a TV series, podcasts actually made me more efficient. Practically every dull activity - folding laundry,… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
What you can say, what French parents say to their kids is, 'You don't have to eat everything, honey, you just have… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“Yet the French have managed to be involved without becoming obsessive. They assume that even good parents aren't at the constant service… — Pamela Druckerman Children Copy Share Image
And as a mother of three with a full-time job, podcasts gave me the illusion of having a vibrant social life. I… — Pamela Druckerman Friendship Copy Share Image
Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn't that it's bad for children; it's that it's bad for parents. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Just do what you want more often. Don't be so worried about what other people expect. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just tell my kids, 'Outside of France, I'm considered completely normal.' This worked until we traveled to London. — Pamela Druckerman France Copy Share Image
It's refreshing to have some time off from wondering whether I look fat. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“It quickly becomes clear that having a child in France doesn't require choosing a parenting philsophy.” — Pamela Druckerman Children Copy Share Image
The question on my husband's birthday is always, What do you get for the man who has nothing? — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“Soul mate" isn't a pre-existing condition. It's an earned title. They're made over time.” — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Certain woman will be jealous of how skinny you are, no matter what's causing it. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Parisiennes rarely walk around wearing the giant diamonds that are de rigueur in certain New York neighborhoods. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
This idea - that the only way to mend the relationship post-affair is through therapy - is unique to the American script. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Not many foreigners move to Paris for their dream job. Many do it on a romantic whim. — Pamela Druckerman Dream Copy Share Image
When my mother in Florida mentions that she's off to play golf, I think: Golf? In the age of Trump? — Pamela Druckerman Age Copy Share Image
When you're wondering whether she's his daughter or his girlfriend, she's his girlfriend. — Pamela Druckerman Children Copy Share Image
Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work. — Pamela Druckerman Child Copy Share Image
There are no grown-ups…Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
