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Why French Parents Are Superior – the importance of "cadre"
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While Americans fret over modern parenthood, the French are raising happy, well-behaved children without all the anxiety.
Pamela Druckerman on the Gallic secrets for avoiding tantrums, teaching patience and saying ‘non’ with authority.
When I asked French parents how they disciplined their children, it took them a few beats just to understand what I meant. "Ah, you mean how do we educate them?" they asked. "Discipline," I soon realized, is a narrow, seldom-used notion that deals with punishment. Whereas "educating" (which has nothing to do with school) is something they imagined themselves to be doing all the time.
By PAMELA DRUCKERMAN
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