There are notes on the French way of child-proofing, such as, let the child touch the oven, discover it’s hot and never do it again.

C’est pas grâve, non?

And the French way of avoiding guilt — that is, simply not to feel guilty.

Druckerman really rubs salt in the wound when she notes that “French babies I meet mostly sleep through the night from two or three months old.”

She’s terribly judgmental. If your kid isn’t sleeping through the night at that tender age, then you have done something wrong.