A review by mariamsaidwhat
Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman

informative lighthearted fast-paced

3.25

A lot of the advice in this book is common sense and things I had already learned from my very non-French family. The only bits of information that struck me as uniquely French (or at least nothing I had heard from in my circle) were the toxic parts of French culture relating to intolerance of other kinds of peoples or parenting styles, the strange distaste for breastfeeding, the pressure for the mom to bounce back for the man in the relationship, and on a more positive note, the socialized health and childcare, which obviously makes parenting easier than it would be in the states. I wish Druckerman would have spent more time on these aspects on the culture. This was an interesting read, nonetheless.
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