Bringing Up Bebe

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• lasermike026 · Jan 12, 2018 · Recommends

  American child rearing is unbalanced. Read this: Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman

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• neonhomer · Sep 23, 2019 · Recommends

  Not sure where you're from but I enjoyed Bringing Up Bébé by Pamela Druckerman. It's all about French style parenting as she's an American raising her children in France. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1594203334

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• krrrh · Mar 7, 2020 · Recommends

  …the fussing is a natural adjustment period to new skills and awareness makes their sudden shifts in behavior interesting rather than distressing. There are also 3-4 pages of great advice in the book Bringing up Bebe on the French approach to "sleep teaching", which revolves around taking a few minutes to watch a baby who wakes up crying instead of just picking them up right away, thus giving them a chance to fall…

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• resdntalien · Jun 22, 2015 · Recommends

  …Parent" was a good one too -- again focus on the everyday and don't be a helicopter parent is the message there. Lastly as more of a straight up playbook we read one of those French parenting books, "Bringing up Bebe" -- totally helped with toddler eating. What you expect when you're expecting -- throw it in the garbage.

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• scurvy · Aug 23, 2015 · Recommends

  It's on our list. My wife and I both enjoyed reading "Bringing Up Bebe". Any personal experiences on relocating and living there would be appreciated.

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• vkb · May 17, 2016 · Recommends

  …scarier than any news clipping today about the possible future path for government interference in thought and action. Takes things to their logical conclusions. And one non-fiction book that I did enjoy, Bringing Up Bebe, which is about the contrasts between child-rearing in France and America, but on a much larger scale, about the different things that seem culturally obvious to us, but are completely different to other…

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• burlesona · Dec 14, 2019 · Recommends

  …isn’t universal. Anecdotally the trend seems to match living preferences: parents in central cities tend to be less myopic about their kids, parents in the suburbs more so. For my wife and I, the book “Bringing Up Bebe” was really influential in how we thought about kids before and after we had them. It’s a perspective shift kind of like this: your newborn human can’t talk, can’t move, doesn’t have any hobbies, interests,…

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• theNJR · Sep 15, 2022 · Recommends

  For the English speakers, there is Bringing up Bebe. My wife and I are expecting our first in November and are currently reading - and loving - this book. It’s a great reframe.

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• GuiA · Jan 5, 2013 · Mentions

  We lived in the US for a couple years when I was in grade school. My parents always laughed and mocked the stickers that my teacher would put on our assignments: "Great Job!", "You're the best!", "#1". (almost 20 years later, it is still a recurring joke in my family). An English professor of mine in college loved to dissect differences between the French and English language, and how they highli

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• Brajeshwar · Dec 4, 2022 · Mentions

  As parents we wanted to be one of the better ones. A while back, we started with Bringing up Bébé, and since then learnt How to Talk so Kids will Listen and Listen so Kids will Talk; we were even Prepared while Reviving Ophelia. This year, we realized, we want to just settle on being A Good Enough Parent. 1. https://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Up-Bébé-Discovers-Parenting/... 2. https://www.amazon.co

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• cushychicken · Feb 6, 2023 · Mentions

  Howdy! Our baby girl is one month old tomorrow. Three books that really helped me: The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin - a handbook for all things labor and delivery, wonderful reference, and very cheap to get secondhand Cribsheet by Emily Oster - data driven early childhood decisions. Super helpful from one month to 18 months. Bringing Up Bébé by Pamela Druckerman - skip the book and read the 10

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• vonnik · Jun 12, 2016 · Critical

  …good. After an initial lost period, these American immigrants make careers out of France itself, trading off its pre-war reputation. "French women don't get fat", "Why French Parents Are Superior", "Bringing Up Bebe" and "La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life" -- these are all real works published by people monetizing their lifestyle choices by preaching French superiority to those they have left behind.…

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