Top 33 Pamela Druckerman Quotes
#1. Babies are designed to cry when they need something and mothers are designed to respond.
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#2. There are no grown-ups ... Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.
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#3. ...the main point of parental authority is to authorize children to do things, not to block them.
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#4. Like the French, he starts babies off on vegetables and fruits rather than bland cereals. He's not obsessed with allergies. He talks about "rhythm" and teaching kids to handle frustration. He values calm. And he gives real weight to the parents' own quality of life, not just to the child's welfare.
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#6. She'll thank you when she's thirty and can still fit into her high school jeans.
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#7. Autonomy is something fundamental that your child needs. (Francoise Dolto said that by age six, a child should be able to do everything at home that concerns him.)
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#8. My first intervention is to say, when your baby is born, just don't jump on your kid at night," Cohen says, "Give your baby a chance to self-soothe, don't automatically respond, even from birth.
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#9. If you worry less about what people think of you, you can pick up an astonishing amount of information about them. You no longer leave conversations wondering what just happened. Other people's minds and motives are finally revealed.
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#11. I'm hardly the first to point out that middle-class America has a parenting problem. In hundreds of books and articles this problem has been painstakingly diagnosed, critiqued, and named: overparenting, hyperparenting, helicopter parenting, and, my personal favorite, the kindergarchy.
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#12. The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.
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#13. 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.
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#14. [French] Parents see it as their job to bring the child around to appreciating this [food]. They believe that just as they must teach a child how to sleep, how to wait, and how to say bonjour, they must teach her how to eat.
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#15. People's youthful quirks can harden into adult pathologies. What's adorable at 20 can be worrisome at 30 and dangerous at 40.
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#16. I don't want to be Jewish, I want to be British," she announces in early December.
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#17. When you're wondering whether she's his daughter or his girlfriend, she's his girlfriend.
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#18. We've hired a lovely nanny, Adelyn, from the Philippines, who shows up in the morning and looks after Bean all day.
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#19. I might as well have declared my devotion to processed cheese.
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#21. By your 40s, you don't want to be with the cool people; you want to be with your people.
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#22. It quickly becomes clear that having a child in France doesn't require choosing a parenting philsophy.
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#23. One day I have a revelation. 'I think we're actually quite compatible,' I tell him. 'You're irritable, and I'm irritating.
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#24. The French believe that kids feel confident when they're able to do things for themselves, and do those things well. After children have learned to talk, adults don't praise them for saying just anything. They praise them for saying interesting things, and for speaking well.
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#25. The de'clic (DEH-kleek) is an aha moment when a child figures out how to do something important on his own...it's a welcome sign of maturity and autonomy.
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#26. One reason for pausing is that young babies make a lot of movement and noise while they're sleeping. This is normal and fine. If parents rush in and pick the baby up every time he makes a peep, they'll sometimes wake him up.
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#27. Just because you're 40, you don't have to decide whether God exists ... when you're already worrying that the National Security Agency is reading your emails, it's better not to know whether yet another entity is watching you.
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#28. I realize that i've seen French mothers and nannies pausing exactly this little bit before tending to their babies during the day. It hadn't occurred to me that this was deliberate or that it was at all significant.
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#29. You will miss out on some near soul mates. This goes for friendships, too. There will be unforgettable people with whom you have shared an excellent evening or a few days. Now they live in Hong Kong, and you will never see them again. That's just how life is.
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#30. Your first attempt will be terrible ... Remember that everything great you see started out as someone else's bad first draft ... Whenever someone sends me a manuscript and says, 'It just flowed out of me,' I usually think: Let it flow back into you for a while.
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#31. But in real life, the ideal Parisian woman is calm, discreet, a bit remote, and extremely decisive.
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#33. Within a few hours of meeting him, I realized that "love at first sight" just means feeling immediately and extremely calm with someone.
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