The runaway New York Times bestseller that shows American parents the secrets behind France''s amazingly well-behaved children, from the author of There Are No Grown-ups.
“On questions of how to live, the French never disappoint. . . . Maybe it all starts with childhood. That is the conclusion that readers may draw from Bringing Up Bébé.” —The Wall Street Journal
“I’ve been a parent now for more than eight years, and—confession—I’ve never actually made it all the way through a parenting book. But I found Bringing Up Bébé to be irresistible.”—Slate
When American journalist Pamela Druckerman had a baby in Paris, she didn''t aspire to become a “French parent.” But she noticed that French children slept through the night by two or three months old. They ate braised leeks. They played by themselves while