“Babies are designed to cry when they need something and mothers are designed to respond.” — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of… — Pamela Druckerman 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 Copy Share Image
One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“It turns out that to be a different kind of parent, you don’t just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“French parents don't worry that they're going to damage their kids by frustrating them. To the contrary, they think their kids will… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
French parents are very concerned about their kids. They know about pedophiles, allergies, and choking hazards. They take reasonable precautions. But they… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
“I realize that i've seen French mothers and nannies pausing exactly this little bit before tending to their babies during the day.… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
When I tell French parents that I know lots of American kids who will eat only pasta or only white rice, they… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“Walter Mischel says the worst-case scenario for a kid from eighteen to twenty-four months of age is "the child is busy and… — Pamela Druckerman 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 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
“It quickly becomes clear that having a child in France doesn't require choosing a parenting philsophy.” — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Being an immigrant mother can be hard, but being a poor immigrant mother is much harder. You don't generally get to sit… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Where Americans might coo over a child's most inane remark to boost his confidence, middle-class French parents teach their kids to be… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
I've got letters from all over the world saying what you're describing as American parenting is Chilean middle-class parenting, or it is… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“[French] Parents see it as their job to bring the child around to appreciating this [food]. They believe that just as they… — 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 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
“if you act (and dress) as if you have a fascinating inner life, you may soon find that you actually do—and that you feel… — Pamela Druckerman 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 with a… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
It's refreshing to have some time off from wondering whether I look fat. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“Within a few hours of meeting him, I realized that "love at first sight" just means feeling immediately and extremely calm with someone.” — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
When I tell French parents that I know lots of American kids who will eat only pasta or only white rice, they can't believe… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
I was scared to say I was in my 40s because at that point, it sounded really old, and to out myself as a… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging. — Pamela Druckerman 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
If you worry less about what people think of you, you can pick up an astonishing amount of information about them. You no longer… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
I guess we're all supposed to get used to living in a more dangerous world. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
One of the maddening things about being a foreigner in France is that hardly anyone in the rest of the world knows what's really… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
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