Quotes by Pamela Druckerman - Page 3

The French believe that kids feel confident when they're able to do things for themselves, and do those things well. After children have learned to talk, adults don't praise them for saying just anything. They praise them for saying interesting things, and for speaking well.
Pamela Druckerman / Writer
Kids
Believe
Children
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And as a mother of three with a full-time job, podcasts gave me the illusion of having a vibrant social life. I was constantly 'meeting' new people. My favorite hosts started to seem like friends: I could detect small shifts in their moods and tell when they were flirting with guests.
Pamela Druckerman / Writer
Flirting
Guests
Social Life
Detect
Full-Time
Full-Time Job
Hosts
Meeting
Moods
New People
Shifts
Vibrant
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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.
Pamela Druckerman / Writer
Parenting
Adopting
Diets
Faces
Unprecedented
Foods
Practically
Increasingly
Medicines
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What you can say, what French parents say to their kids is, 'You don't have to eat everything, honey, you just have to taste it.' And it's that tasting little by little by little that gets kids more familiar with the food and more comfortable with it and more likely to eat it the next time.
Pamela Druckerman / Writer
Familiar
Honey
Next Time
Tasting
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In your 40s, you kind of know how things are likely to go, and you're better at saying, 'You know what? That just doesn't suit me...' I remember thinking in my 30s, 'I should go to Burning Man. I could be a Burning Man person.' And in my 40s, I'm like, 'You know what? I'm never going to go to Burning Man.'
Pamela Druckerman / Writer
Burning
Thinking Man Me
Suit
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Unlike the time sink of binge-watching a TV series, podcasts actually made me more efficient. Practically every dull activity - folding laundry, applying makeup - became tolerable when I did it while listening to a country singer describing his hardscrabble childhood, or a novelist defending her open marriage.
Pamela Druckerman / Writer
Country Singer
Describing
Efficient
Folding
Laundry
Tolerable
Tv Series
Applying
Defending
Unlike
Practically
Sink
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French parents are very concerned about their kids. They know about pedophiles, allergies, and choking hazards. They take reasonable precautions. But they aren't panicked about their children's well-being. This calmer outlook makes them better at both establishing boundaries and giving their kids some autonomy.
Pamela Druckerman / Writer
Kids
Children
Giving
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The overarching conventional wisdom - what everyone from government experts to my French girlfriends take as articles of faith - is that restrictive diets generally don't make you healthier or slimmer. Instead, it's best to eat a variety of high-quality foods in moderation and pay attention to whether you're hungry.
Pamela Druckerman / Writer
Articles
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Diets
Experts
High Quality
Hungry
Pay Attention
Variety
Foods
Girlfriends
Healthier
Restrictive
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Early childhood offerings vary, but everywhere in Europe and in Canada, they're far more generous than in the United States. Ukrainian dads may not change enough diapers, but their government offers paid maternity leave; practically free preschool; and per-baby payments equivalent to eight months of an average salary.
Pamela Druckerman / Writer
Canada
Diapers
Early Childhood
Generous
Maternity
Offers
Preschool
Salary
Ukrainian
Vary
Dads
Equivalent
Practically
Payments
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There are no soul mates. Not in the traditional sense, at least. In my 20s someone told me that each person has not one but 30 soul mates walking the earth. (“Yes,” said a colleague, when I informed him of this, “and I’m trying to sleep with all of them.”) In fact, “soul mate” isn’t a pre-existing condition. It’s an earned title. They’re made over time.
Pamela Druckerman / Writer
Sleep
Soul
Trying
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