作者：PamelaDruckerman
出版社：PenguinPress
副标题：OneAmericanMotherDiscoverstheWisdomofFrenchParenting
出版年：2012-2-7
页数：304
定价：GBP20.43
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9781594203336
内容简介
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The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children.
When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent." French parenting isn't a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist they aren't doing anything special.
Yet, the French children Druckerman knows sleep through the night at two or three months old while those of her American friends take a year or more. French kids eat well-rounded meals that are more likely to include braised leeks than chicken nuggets. And while her American friends spend their visits resolving spats between their kids, her French friends sip coffee while the kids play.
Motherhood itself is a whole different experience in France. There's no role model, as there is in America, for the harried new mom with no life of her own. French mothers assume that even good parents aren't at the constant service of their children and that there's no need to feel guilty about this. They have an easy, calm authority with their kids that Druckerman can only envy.
Of course, French parenting wouldn't be worth talking about if it produced robotic, joyless children. In fact, French kids are just as boisterous, curious, and creative as Americans. They're just far better behaved and more in command of themselves. While some American toddlers are getting Mandarin tutors and preliteracy training, French kids are- by design-toddling around and discovering the world at their own pace.
With a notebook stashed in her diaper bag, Druckerman-a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal-sets out to learn the secrets to raising a society of good little sleepers, gourmet eaters, and reasonably relaxed parents. She discovers that French parents are extremely strict about some things and strikingly permissive about others. And she realizes that to be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.
While finding her own firm non, Druckerman discovers that children-including her own-are capable of feats she'd never imagined.
作者简介
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Pamela Druckerman is a former staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered foreign affairs. She has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Marie Claire, and appeared on The Today Show and NPR's Morning Edition. Her previous book, Lust in Translation, was translated into eight languages. She has a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia. She lives in Paris.
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好书，非常同意法国人的育儿理念。乐趣是许多事情的源动力。
时间过得真快
比起育儿书，更觉得自己是在第一部小说或者文化散文作品，很有以前读Peter Mayle的A Year in Provence的感觉；书后附食谱这点我很喜欢啊打算啥时候尝试一下gateau au yauort这种幼儿也能做的蛋糕… 另外，按照作者说法，美国孩子其实也是小皇帝小公主，中国爸爸妈妈别再老说美帝教育好了哈哈
Parenting is both interesting and challenging. It's hard to find the exact boundary of French contradictory principles like when to assertively say NO to your kids and when to listen carefully to thei…
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