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Life & fun · February 22, 2016

On Books #24 - Bringing up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman

A 20 minute dive into the book Brining Up Bebe (2014)

On Books #24 - Bringing up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman launched on February 22, 2016 with 61 votes, #1,350 of 4,386 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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When American journalist Pamela Druckerman had a baby in Paris, she didn't aspire to become a "French parent." But she noticed that French children slept through the night by two or three months old. They ate braised leeks. They played by themselves while their parents sipped coffee. And yet French kids were still boisterous, curious, and creative. Why? How? With a notebook stashed in her dia

In Brining Up Bebe, author Pamela Druckerman investigates the difference between raising a child in France vs. The United States. Druckman notices that babies in France sleep through the night, whereas in America, newborns wake up in the middle of the night. Druckman wondered, “Why is there a difference?” In her investigation, she discovered that French parents practice something that she refers to as “The Pause.” “Give your baby a chance to self-soothe, don’t automatically respond, even from birth.” [47] “Adults wake up between their sleep cycles too, but typically don’t remember this because they’ve learned to plunge right into…from castig.org

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