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  • French Kids Eat Everything

  • How Our Family Moved to France, Cured Picky Eating, Banned Snacking, and Discovered 10 Simple Rules for Raising Happy, Healthy Eaters
  • By: Karen Le Billon
  • Narrated by: Cris Dukehart
  • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (116 ratings)

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French Kids Eat Everything

By: Karen Le Billon
Narrated by: Cris Dukehart
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French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted, decidedly unhealthy North American eating habits while they were all living in France.

At once a memoir, a cookbook, a how-to handbook, and a delightful exploration of how the French manage to feed children without endless battles and struggles with pickiness, French Kids Eat Everything features recipes, practical tips, and 10 easy-to-follow rules for raising happy and healthy young eaters - a sort of French Women Don’t Get Fat meets Food Rules.

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©2012 Karen Le Billon (P)2019 HarperAudio
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Required Reading!!

Extremely engaging! It is highly insightful on not only kids and picky eating, but also a close analysis of North American culture and their relationship with food through the lens of an unsuspecting nation, not to mention a compelling family story spread across two continents. 10/10 recommend to parents, parents to be, and parents never to be. This book is as important for rearing the next generation as it is for any North American.

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It Starts From The Top

This was a fascinating treatis on the French versus North American approach to food and family. Although the author is focused on her children's eating habits, I felt that the challenges stemmed from the authors limited palate, maladaptive habits and cultural anxieties. I commend her for the extensive research and her tenacity. However, at times her intransigence to change and basic palate seemed to infect her children. I guess that might just reflect how hard change or growth can be. It was also sad that she opted to move her family back to Canada after 1 year. The French experience seemed a much healthier and balanced way to raise a family.

A similar book that I would HIGHLY recommend is "Bringing Up Bebe".

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I wish I had read this sooner

This book answers so many questions about the way I was raised and in turn how I have raised my child. My wife and I are picky eaters so of course our child would be too. We have a bad good culture in our country that pushes snacking and other bad habits. Before you know it you are teaching your children these same bad habits. This book does a good job of identifying those bad habits and reasonable solutions.

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Enjoyable book!

I enjoyed this book very much. Fun, informative, thought-provoking and great narration. I can't wait to put many of these traditional yet enjoyable "food rules" into my family's routine.

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Pretty Good

Extremely eye opening and informative although the story can be a little boring at times

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a great way to get ideas or understand more about picky eaters and food

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America, we need this!!

It’s such common sense when you hear (or read) it. My eyes were opened. This book got my wife’s attention immediately in the first chapter when she quotes a French saying “tell me how your child eats and I will know what kind of parent you are“. She felt attacked. And then listened intently to try to do better. Such a great read

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A lovely book!

This book was a fantastic balance of entertainment and education! The writer conveys both wit and valuable information in his delightful read

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highly recommend

every parent who struggles getting their kids to eat needs to read this. also a great read if you have a general interest in food, nutrition, cooking, or even the french culture.

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Delightful

I can’t remember where I saw someone talking about this book but I’m so glad I decided to listen to it! My daughter is 6 months old and I have felt so lost about how I was going to start food or if I should start at all yet and then considering baby led weaning.
I liked how she included failed attempts at her food approach.
Most of all I really liked how she talked about how not to teach your child to be emotionally tied to certain food me and my husband aren’t picky eaters but we are emotional eaters and in a lot of ways comfort foods was a big way my own mother showed love for me growing up

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