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Bébé Day By Day: 100 Keys To French Parenting (2013)

by Pamela Druckerman(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1594205531 (ISBN13: 9781594205538)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Penguin Press HC, The

review 1: I avoided Bring Up Bebe because, seriously, we're going to make broad generalizations about a whole society's parenting habits again?? Sometimes it seems like the parenting practices echo chamber is just demanding its newest sacrifice. But. I subsequently read so many positive reviews of it that I decided to dip my toe in the water and picked up this (much shorter) book.And, ok, I don't think the parenting practices advocated herein, or at least most of them, are particularly "French." But they are, at least in my humble opinion, good sense. (Except for the bit in here about thinking of men as just a poor bumbling other species that can't remember child-related things. Because, no. That's both ridiculous and offensive.)So, yeah! Generally good ideas (with some spec... moretacularly bad ones just to make sure you're still paying attention!) and didn't make me feel judged = three stars. Plus bonus recipes!
review 2: Skip the longer book -- you know, the type with paragraphs -- that precedes this one, and just read this. It's a collection of tips, grouped by category (food, sleep, manners, time management) and focused around the eminently reasonable idea that setting limits on your child early/often is the humane thing to do for both of you.I read this immediately before MINIMALIST PARENTING (Asha Dornfest, Christine Koh) and it's a natural counterpart, as both books focus on saying "no" to social pressure, anxiety and competitiveness, and "yes" to the idea that parenting does not have to be a slow motion route to martrydom and/or insanity. less

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