Pamela druckerman’s writing is easy to read, entertaining, and honest without being self-deprecating or cheap. I also love that the author is progressive but real. The advice is fantastic, especially when it comes to helping your child eat food and no...  Read More

Great advice for overcoming what we americans have started to accept has normal terrible behavior. She makes a good argument that american children are often left coddled in a way that leaves their parent and other caregivers exhausted, while not cult...  Read More

This book stinks! Makes no real points to go by. I quit almost halfway thought he book because it was pointless material. Find a summary online and skip the book.

She reeks of a privileged manhattanite and her research is based on what seems like her own limited life experience. There is no context or reason to include the ethnicity of these women, and i don't think someone outsourcing their child rearing to an...  Read More

If you live in paris, speak french and still find yourself helplessly american, then it seems like all you’ll get out of this book is a steaming pile of guilt. She says that healthcare and childcare are free in france but fails to mention that the tax...  Read More

The author seems to belong to a very narrow and specific social circle where all of her american acquaintances raise their kids in the exact same way. I feel bad for french children, or rather parisian children since that is really all the author is d...  Read More