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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. "
Pamela Druckerman
American
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Unique
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" Like practically everyone who grew up in Miami, I knew little about its history. We were more worried about mangoes falling on our cars. "
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Everyone
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" French schools follow a national curriculum that includes arduous surveys of French philosophy and literature. Frenchmen then spend the rest of their lives quoting Proust to one another, with hardly anyone else catching the references. "
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Philosophy
Rest
" 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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Parents
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Remember
" 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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Education
Teach
You
" One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into another. "
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Problems
Parenting
" I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow. "
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Rules
Like
" Having lived in America and France, I've been on both sides of the picky-eating divide. "
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Both Sides
Lived
Sides
" I gradually understood why European mothers aren't in perpetual panic about their work-life balance and don't write books about how executive moms should just try harder: Their governments are helping them - and doing it competently. "
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Why
Balance
Try
" Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place. "
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Soccer
Explain
Happier
" Discrimination was a problem before terrorism. Now, the bad deeds of a few people have made life worse for millions. "
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Life
Terrorism
Problem
" Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and your diploma. Then, in your 20s and 30s, you romance potential partners, find jobs, and learn to support yourself. "
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Yourself
Potential
Childhood
" 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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President
Upset
Husband
" I've gotten used to being a foreigner. "
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Gotten
Being
Used
" When you're the foreigner and your kids are the natives, they realize you're clueless much sooner than they ordinarily would. I'm pretty sure mine skipped the Mommy-is-infallible stage entirely. "
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Pretty
You
Your
" When you're further along in your career, you probably have more money and more means; you have to stop yourself from giving your child too much. Whereas, if you're in twenties, you might just get by. "
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You
Child
Giving
" Where Americans might coo over a child's most inane remark to boost his confidence, middle-class French parents teach their kids to be concise and amusing, to keep everyone listening. "
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Confidence
Parents
Listening
" 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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You
Poor
Immigrant
" Earnestness makes British people gag. "
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Gag
Makes
People
" 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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Well-Being
Easy
Working
" I've never gotten a good idea while checking Twitter or shopping. "
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Twitter
Good
Idea
" When we're in the U.S., my kids instantly start snacking all the time. I don't know how it happens. There is just more food available all the time. There aren't all these little different varieties of snack foods in France. "
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Start
Time
More
" 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. "
Pamela Druckerman
Choice
Live
Good
" Just as dressing well in your forties entails making choices that reflect who you are and not just wearing generic basics, looking good as you get older requires accentuating and enjoying what's specific to you rather than striving for cookie-cutter perfection. "
Pamela Druckerman
Perfection
Looking
Choices
" Certain woman will be jealous of how skinny you are, no matter what's causing it. "
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Jealous
You
Woman
" Parisians won't admit that they go to the gym, let alone that they're scared of terrorists. "
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Alone
Go
" Babies aren't savages. Toddlers understand language long before they can talk. "
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Language
Before
Long
" A large part of the creative process is tolerating the gap between the glorious image you had in your mind and the sad thing you've just made. "
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Sad
Image
Mind
" If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It's like a public referendum on your face. "
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Face
Look
Want
" The French aren't known for being hilarious. When I told Parisians I was interested in French humor, they'd say 'French what?' "
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Known
Humor
Interested