![]() Scandinavians told me about “curling parents”: in the sport of curling, athletes continuously scrub a sheet of ice so that a stone can glide smoothly across it. Middle-class Brazilians, Russians, Germans, Czechs, and Poles are doing it, too. They spend much of this additional time chauffeuring kids to and from activities.Īs messages arrived from readers around the world, I realized that we Anglophones aren’t the only ones hyperparenting. Today, college-educated American mothers spend nine more hours per week on child care than they did in the mid-1990s. The latter is an anxious, labor-intensive, child-centric style of parenting - sometimes called hyperparenting or the kindergarchy - that has taken hold in the past twenty years. (Editors of the Slovak translation changed my last name to Druckermanová.) The book compares the child-rearing practices of middle-class parents in France and the United States. ![]() Bringing Up Bébé has since been translated into twenty-three languages Estonian is next. This video was the first hint that my book would find readers beyond the American and British audiences I’d expected. “Baby Toss,” by Julie Blackmon, whose monograph Homegrown was published ![]()
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