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Is Maman Mean Or Magnifique...??? [for Magda... :-) ]
Gregory Morrow wrote:
[I think the French have the right idea when it comes to child - raising...] Is Maman mean or magnifique? Last Updated: 12:01am BST 15/06/2007 "Living in the heart of Paris, Janine di Giovanni sees daily evidence that French mothers are strict with their children to the point of cruelty. But it does seem to work... A New Zealand friend, a mother of three, recently texted me: "I am in the park and just saw a French mother kick her son hard then go on talking to her friends while he cried. What is wrong with these people?" -------------------------- She was witnessing the process by which the French become the most cowardly, venal, moralistic AND immoral people in Europe! The reason the French have quietly moved away from actually practicing Catholicism in their daily lives is that they are far too SELFISH AND CORRUPT to do so, and NOT that they have done so because they criticize it for being wrong and misguided, instead they are ashamed of missing their confession like naughty little children who have, in their mind, given up on ever actually BEING good. They see this as being in vogue just as rich Americans see being greedy as being fashionable these days. Their abuse by selfish parents makes them selfish adults, ones who cannot be trusted to make promises and keep them, and who cannot even vote consistently for what they want if they don't get it right away or in a startlingly short time. This classic French child abuse is what makes the French cowardly weasels, dishonest, asinine and a stupidly and almost charmingly self-involved and morally indolent in the way that is the absolute charicature of uselessness as a people. They are so lazy and selfish that they cannot even become quality Communists, and are ever stuck in a Socialism that they can't make work because they don't actually want to. A few days before that, sitting in a café near the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, which is unabashed baby central, with my (French) husband, I saw something even scarier. A tiny child, just walking, was trying to catch up with his chic and slender mother, who was furiously pushing the buggy deliberately too fast for the baby to get close to her. The child was crying frantically, red in the face and holding up his tiny arms begging her to carry him. There was no way he could catch her. And she knew it. "Non, non, non," she screeched in a high-pitched voice. She strolled ahead faster leaving the baby in the dust. "Don't say it," my husband warned seconds before I nearly said, "what is wrong with these people?" Instead I muttered, "well, that kid will be in therapy for the rest of his life." I joke about these things, but it's not altogether funny. One of the toughest things I have had to get used to in an otherwise idyllic Paris is the huge gap between Anglo-Saxon (or Italian American in my case) parenting and parenting French style. The French are certainly stricter. They shout more. They slap more. And they enforce manners. But as a result, you find beautifully brought up children, and many of my French friends who are parents will argue endlessly that instilling discipline and setting boundaries is the way of showing the utmost love. ------------------------ What a lie, the European nation of weasels and con artists being called "beautifully brought up"! A Lie Indeed!! Steve |
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Is Maman Mean Or Magnifique...??? [for Magda... :-) ]
kenties hinttari raapustelet juttujas muualla konffista rte
"R. Steve Walz" kirjoitti ... Gregory Morrow wrote: [I think the French have the right idea when it comes to child - raising...] Is Maman mean or magnifique? Last Updated: 12:01am BST 15/06/2007 "Living in the heart of Paris, Janine di Giovanni sees daily evidence that French mothers are strict with their children to the point of cruelty. But it does seem to work... A New Zealand friend, a mother of three, recently texted me: "I am in the park and just saw a French mother kick her son hard then go on talking to her friends while he cried. What is wrong with these people?" -------------------------- She was witnessing the process by which the French become the most cowardly, venal, moralistic AND immoral people in Europe! The reason the French have quietly moved away from actually practicing Catholicism in their daily lives is that they are far too SELFISH AND CORRUPT to do so, and NOT that they have done so because they criticize it for being wrong and misguided, instead they are ashamed of missing their confession like naughty little children who have, in their mind, given up on ever actually BEING good. They see this as being in vogue just as rich Americans see being greedy as being fashionable these days. Their abuse by selfish parents makes them selfish adults, ones who cannot be trusted to make promises and keep them, and who cannot even vote consistently for what they want if they don't get it right away or in a startlingly short time. This classic French child abuse is what makes the French cowardly weasels, dishonest, asinine and a stupidly and almost charmingly self-involved and morally indolent in the way that is the absolute charicature of uselessness as a people. They are so lazy and selfish that they cannot even become quality Communists, and are ever stuck in a Socialism that they can't make work because they don't actually want to. A few days before that, sitting in a café near the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, which is unabashed baby central, with my (French) husband, I saw something even scarier. A tiny child, just walking, was trying to catch up with his chic and slender mother, who was furiously pushing the buggy deliberately too fast for the baby to get close to her. The child was crying frantically, red in the face and holding up his tiny arms begging her to carry him. There was no way he could catch her. And she knew it. "Non, non, non," she screeched in a high-pitched voice. She strolled ahead faster leaving the baby in the dust. "Don't say it," my husband warned seconds before I nearly said, "what is wrong with these people?" Instead I muttered, "well, that kid will be in therapy for the rest of his life." I joke about these things, but it's not altogether funny. One of the toughest things I have had to get used to in an otherwise idyllic Paris is the huge gap between Anglo-Saxon (or Italian American in my case) parenting and parenting French style. The French are certainly stricter. They shout more. They slap more. And they enforce manners. But as a result, you find beautifully brought up children, and many of my French friends who are parents will argue endlessly that instilling discipline and setting boundaries is the way of showing the utmost love. ------------------------ What a lie, the European nation of weasels and con artists being called "beautifully brought up"! A Lie Indeed!! Steve |
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Is Maman Mean Or Magnifique...??? [for Magda... :-) ]
=?Windows-1252?Q?Markku_Gr=F6nroos?= wrote:
kenties hinttari raapustelet juttujas muualla konffista rte ------------------- 1) Is that Finnish? And: 2) What does it mean in English? Steve "R. Steve Walz" kirjoitti ... Gregory Morrow wrote: [I think the French have the right idea when it comes to child - raising...] Is Maman mean or magnifique? Last Updated: 12:01am BST 15/06/2007 "Living in the heart of Paris, Janine di Giovanni sees daily evidence that French mothers are strict with their children to the point of cruelty. But it does seem to work... A New Zealand friend, a mother of three, recently texted me: "I am in the park and just saw a French mother kick her son hard then go on talking to her friends while he cried. What is wrong with these people?" -------------------------- She was witnessing the process by which the French become the most cowardly, venal, moralistic AND immoral people in Europe! The reason the French have quietly moved away from actually practicing Catholicism in their daily lives is that they are far too SELFISH AND CORRUPT to do so, and NOT that they have done so because they criticize it for being wrong and misguided, instead they are ashamed of missing their confession like naughty little children who have, in their mind, given up on ever actually BEING good. They see this as being in vogue just as rich Americans see being greedy as being fashionable these days. Their abuse by selfish parents makes them selfish adults, ones who cannot be trusted to make promises and keep them, and who cannot even vote consistently for what they want if they don't get it right away or in a startlingly short time. This classic French child abuse is what makes the French cowardly weasels, dishonest, asinine and a stupidly and almost charmingly self-involved and morally indolent in the way that is the absolute charicature of uselessness as a people. They are so lazy and selfish that they cannot even become quality Communists, and are ever stuck in a Socialism that they can't make work because they don't actually want to. A few days before that, sitting in a café near the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, which is unabashed baby central, with my (French) husband, I saw something even scarier. A tiny child, just walking, was trying to catch up with his chic and slender mother, who was furiously pushing the buggy deliberately too fast for the baby to get close to her. The child was crying frantically, red in the face and holding up his tiny arms begging her to carry him. There was no way he could catch her. And she knew it. "Non, non, non," she screeched in a high-pitched voice. She strolled ahead faster leaving the baby in the dust. "Don't say it," my husband warned seconds before I nearly said, "what is wrong with these people?" Instead I muttered, "well, that kid will be in therapy for the rest of his life." I joke about these things, but it's not altogether funny. One of the toughest things I have had to get used to in an otherwise idyllic Paris is the huge gap between Anglo-Saxon (or Italian American in my case) parenting and parenting French style. The French are certainly stricter. They shout more. They slap more. And they enforce manners. But as a result, you find beautifully brought up children, and many of my French friends who are parents will argue endlessly that instilling discipline and setting boundaries is the way of showing the utmost love. ------------------------ What a lie, the European nation of weasels and con artists being called "beautifully brought up"! A Lie Indeed!! Steve |
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