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Bringing Up Bébé
- One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
- Narrateur(s): Abby Craden
- Durée: 9 h et 8 min
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The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children is here.
When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent". French parenting isn't a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist they aren't doing anything special.
Yet the French children Druckerman knows sleep through the night at two or three months old while those of her American friends take a year or more. French kids eat well-rounded meals that are more likely to include braised leeks than chicken nuggets. And while her American friends spend their visits resolving spats between their kids, her French friends sip coffee while the kids play.
Motherhood itself is a whole different experience in France. There's no role model, as there is in America, for the harried new mom with no life of her own. French mothers assume that even good parents aren't at the constant service of their children and that there's no need to feel guilty about this. They have an easy, calm authority with their kids that Druckerman can only envy.
Of course, French parenting wouldn't be worth talking about if it produced robotic, joyless children. In fact, French kids are just as boisterous, curious, and creative as Americans. They're just far better behaved and more in command of themselves. While some American toddlers are getting Mandarin tutors and preliteracy training, French kids are - by design - toddling around and discovering the world at their own pace.
With a notebook stashed in her diaper bag, Druckerman, a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, sets out to learn the secrets to raising a society of good little sleepers, gourmet eaters, and reasonably relaxed parents. She discovers that French parents are extremely strict about some things and strikingly permissive about others. And she realizes that to be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.
While finding her own firm non, Druckerman discovers that children - including her own - are capable of feats she'd never imagined.
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- Sarah
- 2019-03-06
Great book, okay audio
I wish they wouldn’t use fake French accents whenever they read a quote from a French person.
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- Mare
- 2020-08-28
Great!
I loved this book for its humour and authenticity.
I was fascinated by the subtle, yet distinct differences the author finds between the two cultures’ and their parenting styles. Light hearted and fun to listen to out for a daily walk.
The narrator does a great job with her French and American accents as well, I would often laugh out loud while listening to this.
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- Nikki Wong
- 2019-06-02
only useful if you're neurotic
I was disappointed by the scarcity of actual parenting advice throughout this book. More than anything, this is a story of a neurotic New Yorker who needs to move to Paris to realize common sense. The author conflates "American parenting" with "ultra permissive helicopter parents who haven't earned their child's respect", so every anecdote about Americans made me cringe. There are some valid parenting philosophies in this book (e.g. helping your child learn to delay gratification rather than giving in immediately) but honestly these pointers sound like common sense to me.
As many other reviewers have mentioned, the narrator's fake accents are off-putting.
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- Vikas Gupta
- 2019-02-03
Great Book
Humorous and witty!! Very informative for a parent bringing up a child from different ethical background in a different region.
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- shelly carson
- 2021-05-26
great all around.
easy listen. I would just pop in my headphones while out for a walk or doing yardwork.
great voice acting for the reader to add a French spin.
also great content. alot to think about as a new parent in North America.
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- Arthur
- 2021-05-03
A new perspective
This book gives me broad perspectives about french parenting and culture. Though I don’t fully agree with the parenting way, most of it are making sense.
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- Amy
- 2021-04-17
love it
Loves this book. I binge listened to it in a couple of days and was sad when it ended.
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- Katalin Weitz
- 2020-08-26
Enjoyable and Educational
A very lucid well written book, giving many pointers on how to raise a confident and happy, autonomous child. It is written/narrated with subtle humor. Many parents would benefit from taking its observations to heart.
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- Ana Paola Martinez
- 2020-06-09
Enjoyable
I enjoy this book so much, gave my a different perspective about parenting. I dislike that this book doesn't come with the PDF support for some of the recipes, it would be amazing if they provide that information like other books in Audible do. Otherwise, was quite refreshing and entertaining.
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- Ty8815
- 2020-03-23
J’adore this book!
I loved this book! I want to incorporate some of the ideas into my parenting strategy.
I love forward to listening to the second one!
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- VassMin
- 2020-12-06
Relatively useful, BUT
The narrator who feels compelled to monkey the “French accent” (very badly!) whenever she quotes a French person speak, makes listening hardly bearable. There is absolutely no need. We know this is a book about French parenting.
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- SBW
- 2022-02-10
Book is great - Audio is terrible
Although the book is great (I would definitely recommend); the reader’s French impression and pseudo accent are unbearable… It’s a torture to listen to…
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- aureincm
- 2015-03-13
Great book. Awful accent!
As a French new mom living in the US I found this book really interesting. Although I do not agree with everything, I feel like Pamela's vision of French parenting is very accurate. I can see a lot of myself in her French moms descriptions but also a lot of my own parents.
Even though I really enjoyed the book for its content, I found the reader's performance to be really bad, and actually even annoying to listen to. All along the book the reader tries to fake a French accent and completely fails. Her accent sounds more Dutch or German to me and I wish she just spoke plain English.
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- Em
- 2012-04-15
Inspiring
I started listening to Bringing Up Bébé the very same day it came out. Having a “bébé” of my own who is rapidly morphing into a destructive whirl of Tasmanian Devil-style energy, I was immediately sucked in by the title of the opening chapter of Pamela Druckerman’s book: “French Children Don’t Throw Food.” Oh really… I’m listening.
I’m not sure that there’s any one big Holy Grail of child-rearing here but this book proved to be charming, funny, and VERY informative, and I’ve found it’s been helpful in guiding my thinking about what kinds of values I want to try to instill in my child. Some of these have been surprising. For instance, Druckerman writes that in American households we force “please” and “thank you” down our kids’ throats - convinced that if they can master these two critical mantras of etiquette then they will be society ready. In France they teach this too, but there are two other, even more critical, words: “hello” and “goodbye”. French children don’t slink into the room or run to the TV when their parents' friends are visiting. They look the adult in the eye and say “hello”. The reverse plays out when the visitor leaves. French parents feel that this confers respect – that doing this forces their children to acknowledge the humanity of another person. Listening to this while driving to work I found myself practically fist-pumping. “Yes! I want my daughter to acknowledge the humanity of other people too!” She goes on to point out that much of the hostility that American tourists experience from the French originates from the fact that we don’t say “bonjour” upon getting in a cab or entering a restaurant. Who knew?
Overall this was a truly enlightening listen, filled with lots of inspiring little tidbits like this. Druckerman is funny and relatable and Abby Craden as the narrator was perfection. I was actually surprised it wasn’t the author reading it because her delivery is so natural and she sounds so connected to the material.
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- M•P•C
- 2015-05-20
Narrator's Frenglish Accent Was Distracting
Valuable takeaways from this book, but was distracted by how the narrator pronounced French words. Maybe this it was intentional to reinforce the American-speaking-French idea, but her accent was noticeably inauthentic.
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- Jessie
- 2012-03-10
Great Read! Review From First Time Mom
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
This book made me laugh. My daughter is 11 months old and I read most of it while juggleing her from place to place. Well written and funny. I gave it to my sisters.
What did you like best about this story?
The writer is honest and also adds in a lot of facts about France- I learned a lot along my audio journey.
What insight do you think you’ll apply from Bringing Up Bebe?
To moms: trust yourself. You know more than both you and the oober mommy culture think you do.
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This is the first book on parenting I've enjoyed reading... Come to think of it, it's the first book on parenting I've actually managed to finish. This book made me feel both hopeful and amused.
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- Jessica
- 2012-02-24
Great book!
The premise of this book is an interesting one. I enjoyed the way that Druckerman gave her stats and kind of let the reader take from it what they wanted to. I read on a review on another site where someone said that she raves about parenting in France and bags on American parenting. I didn't find that to be true. It's a good book, I took away a lot of ideas. Abby Craden is a good narrator. I haven't had a lot of experience listening to non fiction, but I will now.
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- Gregory T Menzel
- 2016-10-20
Narrator makes me want to jam pencils in my ears
I had heard great things about this book, and have many friends who recommended it. Being a fan of audible and having little time to read with a new baby I picked up the audio version. What a colossal mistake. The narrator's repeated use of the worst fake French accented English is so awful that I honestly can't finish the book. If someone did a Chinese accent the way this woman does a French accent that person would be decried as a racist and banned from ever using language again. Do yourself a favor and don't waste your money on this audiobook. Unless you want to have your brain repeatedly stabbed with knives
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- V
- 2012-12-18
Not A Fan of the Book
This book was more the author's personal life (her relationship and work) than actual class between her culture's parenting and parenting in France. She presents herself as a type of New York mom that I can't related to despite being from the US -- so the idea that it is US parenting vs French parenting falls flat.
Readers who do accents crack me up! My partner overheard this book and kept making fun of the reader's faux French accent. Made for lasting amusement whenever we discuss parenting...
I would recommend the "French Children Eat Everything" book. It is more focused on eating/feeding differences. And at least for me, I could relate more to the author of that book. [And I read it rather than listening.]
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- shfn
- 2014-03-23
Excellent book, ridiculous narration
What did you love best about Bringing Up Bebe?
Parenting books are almost invariably insufferable as they offer some combination of patronizing, ineloquence, triviality, and sanctimony. This book was a clear exception: well-written, interesting and relevant. However, the narration was enervating: most French words, terms, names, and expressions were pronounced incorrectly, and all French speaking characters were performed with a fake French accent (in English). However, even with these shortcomings, I very much enjoyed listening to this book.
What didn’t you like about Abby Craden’s performance?
I resented the mispronunciation of most French words, names, and expressions (from bonjour to Paris Match, through Virginie and innumerable others). Does no one check these things for a narrator who clearly does not speak french? Also deeply disliked the fake French accent (in English) in which all French-speaking characters were read.
What’s an idea from the book that you will remember?
The chapters on waiting, food, and discipline.
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- Cyndi
- 2012-03-04
Loved this - and I don't even have children
Humerous and sometimes serious account of living in Paris and raising children there. I found it interesting to listen to the differences and want to apply some of the advice for myself (no snacking between meals, but for a planned one in the afternoon). Fun book!
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- kimberly
- 2012-02-13
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I liked it. This book gives a glimpse into the French way of parenting. It turns out there is a lot to admire and emulate. The author did a good job of high-lighting the things that drive me crazy about what a lot of Americans moms tend to do (I'm guilty!), but in a light way. I don't see this book's premise as a another reason to feel bad as parents, though. I look at it as food for thought. Speaking of food, I've been introducing more variety w/ my kids (based on the French way),...voila! it worked!
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