100 parenting tips from Paris

French Parents Don't Give In

Parenting advice from the no.1 Sunday Times bestseller French Children Don't Throw Food, now distilled into 100 short and easy tips.

Druckerman's central message to new parents: "adult time is a basic human right"

Puts French parenting under the microscope and discovers a heartening laissez-faire attitude in direct contrast with American and British helicopter parenting

Pamela Druckerman is the author of the number one Sunday Times bestseller French Children Don't Throw Food (published in the US as Bringing Up Bébé), which has been translated into 27 languages. She is also a Contributing Opinion Writer for the New York Times. She lives in Paris with her English husband and their children.

Parenting advice from French Children Don't Throw Food, now distilled into 100 short and easy tips. 
In response to the enthusiastic reception of her bestselling parenting memoir French Children Don't Throw Food, Pamela Druckerman now offers a practical handbook that distils her findings into one hundred short and straightforward tips to bring up your child a la francaise. Includes advice about pregnancy, feeding (including meal plans and recipes from Paris creches), sleeping, manners, and more. 
'Her book should be dispensed on prescription-' - Spectator

The hilarious NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER changing parents’ lives

French Children Don't Throw Food

The number one Sunday Times bestseller, the book all parents are talking about: 'I will read parenting self-help books, including...French Children Don't Throw Food, in order to be better at looking after the children than Chloe' - Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy

Fascinating... gripping... extremely funny... A desperately needed corrective to received wisdom about child-rearing and what having children is supposed to do to a woman's sense of self. I loved it. It made me want to move to Paris

Self-deprecating, witty, informative... But however much she admires "the easy, calm authority" French parents seem to posess, will Druckerman manage it herself? Her efforts to do so add a compelling narrative to this fascinating study of French parenting

Observant, dryly entertaining... In recounting how her three children went native, Druckerman is engagingly self-deprecating... This book is worth its price for the crucial information it reveals about how to win the sleep wars

Fascinating and enlightening... Druckerman's observations struck me as Eureka discoveries that could improve interaction between adults and children here

'I couldn't put it down! Smart, funny, provocative, and genuinely eye-opening.'

Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Pamela Druckerman is a charming narrator...  she has produced an important guide to staying calm, and if half of what she says about anglophone parents is true, her book should be dispensed on prescription

This witty book will leave you with a few tricks up your sleeve as you embrace the French culture

Well-written, funny and doesn't take itself too seriously

[Druckerman's] attempts to emulate the French are recounted with wit and humility in this must read manual for new parents

'Fascinating...gripping...extremely funny...I loved it. It made me want to move to Paris' - India Knight, Sunday Times 
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Do you want to learn the secrets of the parents of France's well-behaved children? 
 
How come French babies sleep through the night? 
Why do French children happily eat what is put in front of them? 
How can French mothers chat to their friends while their children play quietly? 
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Parents are saying MERCI to Pamela Druckerman! 
 
***** ‘Our parenting bible’ 
***** ‘You are not alone! … Brilliantly funny and really helpful.’ 
***** ‘Eye opening … it has changed the way I view and interact with my little one!’

Pamela Druckerman

Another genius work of meticulously observed revelatory, pragmatic and candid autobiography from an extremely funny and intelligent female member of the human race.

I laughed a lot...a brilliantly entertaining mix of personal stories and expert advice about rocking midlife.

One that has touched a nerve with me and fellow mid-life adventurers...such an accurate description of what lies ahead if you are hurtling towards the big four-oh or living through it.

Funny and perceptive...reminds readers that middle age can be 'the best age of all'.

Pitch-perfect and brutally frank... She has a reckless candor that can make you laugh and gasp at the same time...  [Nora] Ephron is simply irreplaceable, but Druckerman is the heir to her impish, unembarrassable spirit and adorable storytelling.

It’s the kind of book you can leave in the bathroom. Short essays about all sorts of things including how she organised a threesome for her husband’s 40th birthday. Druckerman has a keen eye, a wicked sense of humour and is cynical enough to know that we shouldn’t take it all too seriously.

A midlife coming-of-age story

*MUCH RAVED ABOUT BY CHRIS EVANS ON HIS BBC RADIO 2 BREAKFAST SHOW* 
 
EVERYONE ELSE IS WINGING IT TOO. 
 
 You know you're a grown-up when... 
 
 ·You become impatient while scrolling down to your year of birth. 
 
 · You’ve lost and gained the same 10lbs so many times you now regard it as an old friend. 
 
 · Your parents have stopped trying to change you. 
 
 · You don't want to be with the cool people anymore; you want to be with your people. 
 
 · You know that 'Soul mate' isn't a pre-existing condition. It's earned over time. 
 
 Does it ever feel like everyone - except you - is a bona-fide adult? Do you wonder how real grown-ups get to be so mysteriously capable and wise? When she turns 40, Pamela Druckerman - author of the #1 Sunday Times bestseller French Children Don't Throw Food - wonders whether her mind will ever catch up with her face. Waiters start calling her ‘Madame’, and she detects a disturbing new message in mens' gazes: I would sleep with her, but only if doing so required no effort whatsoever. 
 
 There Are No Grown-Ups is a midlife coming-of-age story, a hilarious quest for wisdom, self-knowledge and the right pair of pants. It's a book for readers of all ages about - finally - becoming yourself

There Are No Grown-Ups

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Another genius work of meticulously observed revelatory, pragmatic and candid autobiography from an extremely funny and intelligent female member of the human race.

I laughed a lot...a brilliantly entertaining mix of personal stories and expert advice about rocking midlife.

One that has touched a nerve with me and fellow mid-life adventurers...such an accurate description of what lies ahead if you are hurtling towards the big four-oh or living through it.

Another genius work of meticulously observed revelatory, pragmatic and candid autobiography from an extremely funny and intelligent female member of the human race.

I laughed a lot...a brilliantly entertaining mix of personal stories and expert advice about rocking midlife.

One that has touched a nerve with me and fellow mid-life adventurers...such an accurate description of what lies ahead if you are hurtling towards the big four-oh or living through it.

Another genius work of meticulously observed revelatory, pragmatic and candid autobiography from an extremely funny and intelligent female member of the human race.

I laughed a lot...a brilliantly entertaining mix of personal stories and expert advice about rocking midlife.

One that has touched a nerve with me and fellow mid-life adventurers...such an accurate description of what lies ahead if you are hurtling towards the big four-oh or living through it.

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