Practically every time I speak up at a school conference, a political event, or my apartment building association’s annual meeting, I’m met with a display of someone else’s superior intelligence. Pamela Druckerman Read Quote
I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot. Pamela Druckerman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Teach your kids emotional intelligence. Help them become more evolved than you are. Explain that, for instance, not everyone will like them. Pamela Druckerman Read Quote
Babies aren’t savages. Toddlers understand language long before they can talk. Pamela Druckerman Read Quote
Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn’t that it’s bad for children; it’s that it’s bad for parents. Pamela Druckerman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If you had asked me what I wanted when I was 12 years old, I probably would have said, ‘To marry a plastic surgeon.’ You can hardly blame me: I was growing up in Miami. Pamela Druckerman Read Quote
