yeah exactly! its because you see they're french so they do it right!
no one else tell their kids to say "thanks, please", and no one else dares to say no to whatever stupid things kids might want!
Exactly. Only the French educate their children.
Guess what. Half the people don't educate the children, half of them do. Or maybe it's 2/3. Who cares. The point is it has strictly nothing to do with being French.
For the (American) readers of the article, France can be an imaginary place where the parents use special techniques (described fully in the author's book, conveniently on sale right over here), and everything is happy and wonderful.
The part I liked about the sales job is the idea of supporting the child's autonomy ("Cadre means that kids have very firm limits about certain things -- that's the frame -- and that the parents strictly enforce these. But inside the cadre, French parents entrust their kids with quite a lot of freedom and autonomy.")
France is that magical place where the boundary line between kids' autonomy and parental authority gets drawn in the perfect mutually satisfying place.
no one else tell their kids to say "thanks, please", and no one else dares to say no to whatever stupid things kids might want!
Exactly. Only the French educate their children.
Guess what. Half the people don't educate the children, half of them do. Or maybe it's 2/3. Who cares. The point is it has strictly nothing to do with being French.
(I'm French.)