“Letting children “live their lives” isn’t about releasing them into the wild or abandoning them (though French school trips do feel a bit like that to me). It’s about acknowledging that children aren’t repositories for their parents’ ambitions or projects for their parents to perfect. They are separate and capable, with their own tastes, pleasures, and experiences of the world. They even have their own secrets.” WorldParentPerfectPleasureAmbitionCapableAbandonProjectSeparate Book:Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting Source: Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
“The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.” PerfectSecret Author:Pamela Druckerman
