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Pamela Druckerman
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My family was once invited to lunch at a chateau owned by a friend of a friend. As we drove our rental car up to the giant castle, my kids gasped and said, 'They must be rich!' Pamela Druckerman
Family Car Rich Lunch Our Once Giant Kids Must Castle Drove Invited Said Friend Up Owned
It's fine to discuss money in France, as long as you're complaining that you don't have enough, or boasting about getting a bargain. Pamela Druckerman
You Money Complaining Long Enough France Fine About Discuss Getting Boasting Bargain
When I moved to Europe 12 years ago, my biggest concern was whether I'd ever speak decent French. Practically every American I knew came to visit, many saying they dreamed of living here, too. Pamela Druckerman
Saying Speak Living Every Too Visit Dreamed Knew French Concern Practically Came Years Years Ago American Decent Moved Biggest Whether Europe Many Ever Every American Here
Around my neighborhood, I'm known as the American who talks to her computer while she types. Pamela Druckerman
Types Neighborhood Computer She Known Talks Around American While Who Her
We're understandably worried that staring at screens all day, and blogging about our breakfasts, is turning America into a nation of narcissists. But the opposite might be true. Pamela Druckerman
Day Be True Nation Our Worried All Day About True Opposite Blogging America Screens Might Turning Staring
I've never gotten a good idea while checking Twitter or shopping. Pamela Druckerman
Good Shopping Twitter Never Idea Checking Gotten While Good Idea
Having lived in America and France, I've been on both sides of the picky-eating divide. Pamela Druckerman
Sides France Having Both Divide Both Sides Been America Lived
Eating among the French certainly affected me. After a few years here, I gave up most of my selective food habits. Pamela Druckerman
Food Me Few Gave Eating Habits Selective Most French Affected Years Up After Certainly Among Here
Where Americans might coo over a child's most inane remark to boost his confidence, middle-class French parents teach their kids to be concise and amusing, to keep everyone listening. Pamela Druckerman
Confidence Listening Parents Everyone Boost Kids Remark Over Most French Concise His Child American Where Might Teach Keep Amusing
One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into another. Pamela Druckerman
Parenting You Problems Stage Changing Kids Another Just Used Many Keep
I've gotten used to being a foreigner. Pamela Druckerman
Gotten Foreigner Being Used
French schools follow a national curriculum that includes arduous surveys of French philosophy and literature. Frenchmen then spend the rest of their lives quoting Proust to one another, with hardly anyone else catching the references. Pamela Druckerman
Rest National Else Spend Philosophy Follow Arduous Catching French Schools Another Frenchmen Proust References Surveys Curriculum Anyone Anyone Else Literature Quoting Then Lives Hardly
Your child probably won't get into the Ivy League or win a sports scholarship. At age 24, he might be back in his childhood bedroom, in debt, after a mediocre college career. Raise him so that, if that happens, it will still have been worth it. Pamela Druckerman
Sports Age Worth Win Will College Back Worth It He Scholarship League Him Still Bedroom Been His Debt Ivy Ivy League Child Get Childhood After Happens Might Your Your Child Raise Career Mediocre
I'm a third-generation Miamian. I'm fond of it. I'm an expatriate, so it's the only American city I can still legitimately claim. Pamela Druckerman
Claim City Fond Only Still American
Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and the government is to blame. Pamela Druckerman
Funny Government Satire Blame Gone Punch Punch Line Rarely Wrong Unspoken French Line Irrevocably Natives Even Things
Not many foreigners move to Paris for their dream job. Many do it on a romantic whim. Pamela Druckerman
Job Dream Paris Foreigners Move Romantic Whim Many
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