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" I guess we're all supposed to get used to living in a more dangerous world. "

Pamela Druckerman

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" We Anglophones have reasons for adopting strange diets. Increasingly, we live alone. We have an unprecedented choice of foods, and we're not sure what's in them or whether they're good for us. And we expect to customize practically everything: parenting, news, medicines, even our own faces. "

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" Just do what you want more often. Don't be so worried about what other people expect. "

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" Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn't that it's bad for children; it's that it's bad for parents. "

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" In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because no one is talking to them at home, no one is reading to them. And middle-class parents seized on this research. "

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" Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place. "

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" Babies aren't savages. Toddlers understand language long before they can talk. "

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" I'm speaking in very broad brushstrokes, but in France, there's generally this idea that you should look like the best version of the age that you are. "

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" How hard or easy it is to raise kids, especially while working, is a big part of people's well-being everywhere. "

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" Soon after Donald Trump was inaugurated, I got a letter from France's interior ministry informing me that I was now French. By the time it arrived, I'd been French for nearly two weeks without even knowing it. "

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" America's parenting customs can shock foreigners. "

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" While I love walking past those beautifully lit bookstores in my neighborhood, what I mostly buy there are blank notebooks and last-minute presents for children's birthdays. "

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" Having lived in America and France, I've been on both sides of the picky-eating divide. "

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" The main thing my bookcase says about me is that I'm not French. "

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" Parisiennes rarely walk around wearing the giant diamonds that are de rigueur in certain New York neighborhoods. "

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" Being an immigrant mother can be hard, but being a poor immigrant mother is much harder. You don't generally get to sit in cafes polishing your French by reading 'Le Monde.' "

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" This idea - that the only way to mend the relationship post-affair is through therapy - is unique to the American script. "

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" I'm a third-generation Miamian. I'm fond of it. I'm an expatriate, so it's the only American city I can still legitimately claim. "

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" My husband is so upset by President Trump's scapegoating of immigrants and Muslims, he refuses to even visit the United States. "

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" I was scared to say I was in my 40s because at that point, it sounded really old, and to out myself as a middle-aged human - I felt very awkward about it. "

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" When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful. "

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" The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them. "

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" Optimism - even, and perhaps especially in the face of difficulty - has long been an American hallmark. "

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" When I moved to Europe 12 years ago, my biggest concern was whether I'd ever speak decent French. Practically every American I knew came to visit, many saying they dreamed of living here, too. "

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" When people used to ask me what I missed about America, I would say, 'The optimism.' I grew up in the land of hope, then moved to one whose catchphrases are 'It's not possible' and 'Hell is other people.' I walked around Paris feeling conspicuously chipper. "

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