Pamela Druckerman Quotes

The question on my husband's birthday is always, W... -Pamela Druckerman

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

One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into another.

America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.... -Pamela Druckerman

America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.

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Parenting practices in America may be surprising or unfamiliar to people from other countries or cultures.

The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.

I've got letters from all over the world saying what you're describing as American parenting is Chilean middle-class parenting, or it is Finnish middle-class parenting, or it is Slovak middle-class parenting.

We Anglophones have reasons for adopting strange diets. Increasingly, we live alone. We have an unprecedented choice of foods, and we're not sure what's in them or whether they're good for us. And we expect to customize practically everything: parenting, news, medicines, even our own faces.

The French view is really one of balance, I think... What French women would tell me over and over is, it's very important that no part of your life - not being a mom, not being a worker, not being a wife - overwhelms the other part.

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