Review of the book Bringing Up Bébé/French Children Don’t Throw Food

American journalist and Mum Pamela Druckerman wrote a hilairous book about her experience of raising kids in France called "French children don't throw food". It belongs to this category of books we could call WISFAIF - what is so fascinating and irritating about the French. Yes, it is a book category of its own with lots of best-sellers such as A year in Provence by Peter Mayle or Almost French by Aussie writer Sarah Turnbulll.

I must admit I had a great time reading this book. Pamela put words on things I was doing without even knowing such as the "pause" and the "framework". And she describes at length the strategies to make kids eat ANY food, even blue cheese or zucchini.

There are a few data points and statistics in this book, but it is not a scientific research at all. It is a nice story wrote to entertain.

The perfect reading by the fireplace during the school holidays (for readers in the Northern hemesphere : by the pool during the summer holidays).

And you, did you like this book?

And do you have a favorite book on parenting?