FRENCH PARENTS DON'T GIVE IN

100 parenting tips from Paris

by PAMELA DRUCKERMAN

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New hardcover book, published 2013, 192 pages.

Parenting advice from French Children Don't Throw Food, now distilled into 100 short and easy tips.

When French Children Don't Throw Food was published it caused a storm, fuelling newspaper headlines and discussion in social media for months. A smart and witty account of Pamela Druckerman's own experiences of life as an expat mother of small children living in Paris, it struck a chord with many parents by asking how the French manage to raise such well-behaved children compared to ours.

New Yorker Pamela Druckerman never imagined she would end up in Paris with an English and a baby, followed in quick succession by twins. She discovered that in France mothers do things differently - and often better. So she set about investigating the secrets of parenting a la francaise. Pamela Druckerman has now distilled her insights into this practical handbook, containing one hundred short and straighforward tips for making parenting that little bit easier and more pleasurable for the rest of us.

Here's how the French:

• Get their babies to sleep through the night
• Ensure their children enjoy a wide variety of foods
• Teach their kids good manners
• Make sure they have time for their partner
• Teach their children to be patient
• Manage to maintain their sense of chic

About the author

Pamela Druckerman is a freelance journalist commenting on lifestyle issues married to an English football writer. They live in Paris and have three young children. Apart from using her own first-hand observations of her French friends and neighbours for this new book, she has interviewed scores of French mothers, teachers and child experts.

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French Parents Don't Give In: 100 parenting tips from Paris by Pamela Druckerman