The French health system helps by its generous maternal and child-care policies. It starts, apparently, with calm, sensible French mothers, who don't become enormously self-indulgent during pregnancy, but quickly lose the baby fat after birth and rarely breast feed. With three children of her own, all born in Paris and happily bilingual, Druckerman wanted to find the key to forging the well-behaved youngsters she witnessed in parks and restaurants infants who sleep through the night at two months, children with table manners, who don't interrupt adults or eat between meals. Living in Paris has allowed American journalist Druckerman (Lust in Translation) a riveting glimpse into a calmer, rational, sage way of raising children. Researched over three years and written in her warm, funny voice, Bringing Up Bébé is deeply wise, charmingly told, and destined to become a classic resource for American parents. With a notebook stashed in her diaper bag, Druckerman set out to investigate-and wound up sparking a national debate on parenting. And yet French kids were still boisterous, curious, and creative. They played by themselves while their parents sipped coffee. When American journalist Pamela Druckerman had a baby in Paris, she didn't aspire to become a “French parent.” But she noticed that French children slept through the night by two or three months old. But I found Bringing Up Bébé to be irresistible.
“I’ve been a parent now for more than eight years, and-confession-I’ve never actually made it all the way through a parenting book.
That is the conclusion that readers may draw from Bringing Up Bébé.” - The Wall Street Journal “On questions of how to live, the French never disappoint. The runaway New York Times bestseller that shows American parents the secrets behind France's amazingly well-behaved children, from the author of There Are No Grown-ups.
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