Pamela Druckerman

Get rid of the idea of kids' food. Kids can eat whatever adults can eat. You know, there is one dinner, and…

— Pamela Druckerman

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

“Give willingly, refuse unwillingly,” he writes in Émile. “But let your refusal be irrevocable. Let no entreaties move you; let your ‘no,’…

— Pamela Druckerman

I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.

— Pamela Druckerman

“There are so few years to just be a child.”

— Pamela Druckerman

How hard or easy it is to raise kids, especially while working, is a big part of people's well-being everywhere.

— Pamela Druckerman

Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and…

— Pamela Druckerman

A lot of French comedy is satire.

— Pamela Druckerman

The main thing my bookcase says about me is that I'm not French.

— Pamela Druckerman

Your first attempt will be terrible.... Remember that everything great you see started out as someone else's bad first draft..... Whenever someone…

— Pamela Druckerman

The question on my husband's birthday is always, What do you get for the man who has nothing?

— Pamela Druckerman

There's an American idea that you want to look as young as you can for as long as you can. If you…

— Pamela Druckerman

The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.

— Pamela Druckerman

When you're wondering whether she's his daughter or his girlfriend, she's his girlfriend.

— Pamela Druckerman

When you're the foreigner and your kids are the natives, they realize you're clueless much sooner than they ordinarily would. I'm pretty…

— Pamela Druckerman

“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

I had applied to become French - or, rather, Franco-American, as I'm now a dual citizen - partly because I could: I'd…

— Pamela Druckerman

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

I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

— Pamela Druckerman

Parisiennes rarely walk around wearing the giant diamonds that are de rigueur in certain New York neighborhoods.

— Pamela Druckerman

There's this idea in America that you can be whatever you want. That remains an ideal in terms of how you dress…

— Pamela Druckerman

Here's some news you might find surprising: By and large, the French like Jews.

— Pamela Druckerman

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

The French believe that kids feel confident when they're able to do things for themselves, and do those things well. After children…

— Pamela Druckerman

French children seem to be able to play by themselves in a way.

— Pamela Druckerman