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Yep. And you can tell when they're seriously shaken and do need comfort.Ronja wrote:Regarding how / when / if to react to scrapes. I noticed this around the age of 18 months - 2 years, with both our kids: if they fell in the yard, they checked if I had seen. If the girl thought I hadn't, nine times out of ten she picked herself up and continued whatever she had been doing. But if she thought I had seen her fall -![]()
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I learned to look away very quickly when they fell - and they haven't managed to kill themselves yet.
I remember falling down the stairs when I was six or seven-- not too hurt, I was crying more from shock. But no one was around to see it.Ronja wrote:Regarding how / when / if to react to scrapes. I noticed this around the age of 18 months - 2 years, with both our kids: if they fell in the yard, they checked if I had seen. If the girl thought I hadn't, nine times out of ten she picked herself up and continued whatever she had been doing. But if she thought I had seen her fall -![]()
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I learned to look away very quickly when they fell - and they haven't managed to kill themselves yet.
.hadespussercats wrote:I remember falling down the stairs when I was six or seven-- not too hurt, I was crying more from shock. But no one was around to see it.Ronja wrote:Regarding how / when / if to react to scrapes. I noticed this around the age of 18 months - 2 years, with both our kids: if they fell in the yard, they checked if I had seen. If the girl thought I hadn't, nine times out of ten she picked herself up and continued whatever she had been doing. But if she thought I had seen her fall -![]()
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I learned to look away very quickly when they fell - and they haven't managed to kill themselves yet.
So I walked to where mom was, pretended to fall and started crying again.
The French have 10% the rate of obesity of their American counterparts...and not just the rich ones either.hadespussercats wrote:Listen, French women don't seem to get fat in the vast numbers that American women do. But neither do Chinese women. Or Somalian women.
Or rich American women, for that matter.
The titles in question were written to be provocative, as you pointed out, Mai. There is in fact a meme amongst Americans that the French are superior-- this is the drive behind the "Le Car," or any number of French-sounding brand names to give a product cachet.
And while I don't argue that there are obnoxious American children, or that many French children may have pleasant manners, I'd rather hear about the practices that underlie such outcomes, rather than having to swallow some line about how French parents are better than me. Provocative title is provoking-- I'd say "as designed," except it makes me averse to spending a dime to read it.
And, if anecdotal evidence like, "all the French children I've met were charming" (paraphrase) is acceptable, then I have to point out that most of the French people I've met really do think they're superior to Americans. Even the ones who'd rather not identify as such.
10% of the obesity rate of their American counterparts is pretty significant and not anecdotal...but it is definitely cultural, as you pointed out in an earlier post. That video covers some of it.FBM wrote:I have two classmates who are French. One is thin, the other is clinically obese, I'd say.
That was a bizarre and unpleasant set of posts by her. I don't remember her previous posts being anything like those.hadespussercats wrote:Where did that Ele go, anyway?
She was charming. Her parents must have been French.
Yeah, the stats are more important than my anecdote. The big guy is also Muslim, if that makes any diff. Which, as just another ancecdote, it doesn't.maiforpeace wrote:10% of the obesity rate of their American counterparts is pretty significant and not anecdotal...but it is definitely cultural, as you pointed out in an earlier post. That video covers some of it.FBM wrote:I have two classmates who are French. One is thin, the other is clinically obese, I'd say.
Another thing I have observed is that they do nearly as much solitary eating as we do in the US.
Talk about denial. Just look at those pictures - stacks of cheese, not even any bread or wine in sight, let alone processed sugar - and she closes her eyes and claims it doesn't matter what they eat. She should just admit it: they don't get fat because they're on low carb, high fat diets.maiforpeace wrote:Why French People Don't Get Fat
The reason you didn't see any bread is because it's usually not sold in the open market. Instead, there's a bakery/pastry shop within a couple of blocks of anywhere, open 7 days a week. Same goes for wine, obviously you wouldn't want it sitting out at higher temperatures.Warren Dew wrote:Talk about denial. Just look at those pictures - stacks of cheese, not even any bread or wine in sight, let alone processed sugar - and she closes her eyes and claims it doesn't matter what they eat. She should just admit it: they don't get fat because they're on low carb, high fat diets.maiforpeace wrote:Why French People Don't Get Fat
Well, of course the French love bread. And cheese. But part of the reason we know about the heart-protective qualities of red wine is from studying the French, who drink a lot of it.maiforpeace wrote:
If they were only eating the diet you speak of, eventually that sort of diet is going to give you heart disease...so how come their rate of heart disease isn't off the charts then?
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