French Kids Eat Everything
How Our Family Moved to France, Cured Picky Eating, Banned Snacking, and Discovered 10 Simple Rules for Raising Happy, Healthy Eaters
Karen soon begins to see the wisdom in the "food rules" that the French use to foster healthy eating habits and good manners in babies and children. Some of the rules call into question both our eating habits and our parenting styles. Other rules evoke commonsense habits that we used to share but have somehow forgotten.
Combining personal anecdotes with practical tips and appetizing recipes, French Kids Eat Everything is a humorous, provocative look at families, food, and children that is filled with inspiration and advice that every parent can use.
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July 29, 2014 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781494523978
- File size: 236907 KB
- Duration: 08:13:33
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- English
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AudioFile Magazine
Karen Le Billon gives a fascinating account of her family's move to a small town in France, where her two young daughters undergo a major overhaul of their resolutely fussy North American eating habits. Narrator Cris Dukehart provides a gentle, motherly tone as she describes the differences between North American and French eating habits, and how these practices are systematically introduced to children and reinforced in both school and family life. Where appropriate, Dukehart includes passable French accents for native French speakers. Thought-provoking and easy to digest, this work concludes with 10 practical tips for introducing positive, French-inspired food habits to children. S.E.G. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine -
Publisher's Weekly
April 23, 2012
Part cultural study, memoir, and children's food guide, Le Billon's book is a breezy but practical volume for hurried parents looking to keep their kids well-fed. A mother of two young girls (Sophie and Claire), the author recalls the year her family lived in Pléneuf Val-André, France, her husband Philippe's hometown on the Brittany coast. She compares North American eating habits (e.g., fast-food consumption, constant snacking) to French norms they learned along the wayâ"French parents gently compel their children to eat healthy food. They expect their kids to eat everything they are served, uncomplainingly." In due time, Le Billon (Eau Canada) drafts a set of rules for her daughters, strategies she believes readers can easily follow as wellâparents should "schedule meals and menus;" "Kids should eat what adults eat: no substitutes and no short-order cooking;" and perhaps most importantly: parents "are in charge of food education!" Her tone is straightforward, generous, and gentle. That Le Billon concludes with a small collection of kid-friendly recipesâincluding a Five-Minute Fish en Papillote and Clafoutis (sweet cherry soufflé)âmakes this kid-friendly foodie manifesto all the more accessible.
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- OverDrive Listen audiobook
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