French Parents Don't Give In, By Pamela Druckerman: Book review
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Your support makes all the difference."It is tempting to think of early childhood as the start of a marathon, and the finishing line as admission to university (winners go to Oxbridge)", writes Druckerman in the sequel to her memoir, French Children Don't Throw Food.
A Paris-based mother of three, this American author has long admired French child-rearing techniques – a regime that treats newborns as sentient beings capable of sleeping through the night and lapping up purée d'endives at lunchtime.
Druckerman's central message to new parents: "adult time is a basic human right."
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