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Ah, the French…first the Statue of Liberty and now they are better parents?

Zen Pop

Todd and Cathy Adams

Arts, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.9637 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Todd and Cathy discuss the book Bringing up Bebe: One Mother Discusses the Wisdom of French Parenting and why the author believes American parents “overparent”.  They also discuss Cathy’s latest Chicago Parent blog about finding your magic and seeing and validating your child’s magic.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Zen Painting Radio, my name is Todd Adams.

0:12.1

And this is Kathy Adams.

0:13.3

And we are talking about two different subjects today.

0:16.3

Magic, you could do magic.

0:19.7

And then why the French are better parents.

0:22.6

Or so someone says.

0:24.4

Or so this lady says Pamela Druckerman.

0:27.4

Yes.

0:27.9

And actually, you know what's great?

0:29.3

This is very timely because this book is actually coming out today.

0:32.9

Today.

0:33.8

And so this book we're talking about, it's called, I actually wrote it down,

0:37.1

Bringing Up Bebe.

0:39.2

Is that how you say it in French?

0:40.6

Yeah.

0:41.0

I didn't take French.

0:41.9

Bring up Bebe.

0:42.8

Bebe.

0:43.6

One mother discovers the wisdom of French parenting.

0:47.5

So obviously because this book comes out today, Todd and I have not read it.

0:51.0

And even if it did come out two weeks ago, I probably still wouldn't read it.

0:54.3

But there are a bunch of articles about the book, and they were in, like, Wall Street Journal,

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