“Bruno Rebelle, head of Greenpeace France, summed up the outpouring of national support: “You see, in the United States, food is fuel. Here, it’s a love story.” — Karen Le Billon Copy Share Image
“From the French perspective, this was not attachment parenting. This was indulgent parenting. Traditionally, the French believe that children who have not yet reached… — Karen Le Billon Copy Share Image
“Bruno Rebelle, head of Greenpeace France, summed up the outpouring of national support: “You see, in the United States, food is fuel. Here, it’s… — Karen Le Billon Copy Share Image
“French parents think about healthy eating habits the way North American parents think about toilet training, or reading. If your children consistently refused to read, or even learn the alphabet, would you give up trying to teach them? Would you be content to wait for your children to toilet train by themselves, assuming that they’d eventually “grow out of it”… — Karen Le Billon Copy Share
“And even if the “sneaky” method had worked, it made me wonder: Would my kids keep putting cauliflower puree in their brownies after they… — Karen Le Billon Copy Share Image
“Some things should be so routine that they don’t even ask questions! Especially about eating!” I shrugged it off at the time, but I later began to wonder. Maybe Janine was right. I had encouraged my children to express their individual views, and to use their questions to dispute parental orders, allowing them to exert control where they could. One… — Karen Le Billon Copy Share
“A good wine smells and even tastes like its terroir, the landscape where it was born. And people are the same: where we come… — Karen Le Billon Copy Share Image
“Cooking can be an act of love and delight, or it can be yet another exercise in racing through life on automatic pilot—never stopping… — Karen Le Billon Copy Share Image
“Food Rule #4: Food is social. Eat family meals together at the table, with no distractions. This rule seems to turn North” — Karen Le Billon Copy Share Image
“French parents are provided with very different information about food, and about children's eating habits, than American parents. This is because French doctors, teachers,… — Karen le Billon Copy Share Image
“Opposition to food can’t persist if there is no opponent. In the face of a child’s refusal to eat, the best parental response is… — Karen Le Billon Copy Share Image
