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How to Parent Like a Parisian

When your 3-year-old screams for snack, American parents tend to throw the nearest tube of squeezable applesauce at her as quickly as possible. Not so in France, where parents delay gratification. “I’m now convinced that the secret of why French kids rarely whine or collapse into tantrums - or at least do so less than American kids - is that they’ve developed the internal resources to cope with frustration,” American mom and Paris resident Pamela Druckerman writes in her new book.

Photo: French actress Catherine Deneuve with her son Christian Vadim just a few days after his birth in 1963. Credit: Corbis

Gonna raise my kid the Parisian way! At least s/he will be thin!