Bringing up Bebe

 Have you ever eaten whilst standing at the refrigerator? Probably not...

 How about eating by the sink? Jamais!

 Multi-tasking/eating in front of the computer? Are you kidding?

 After reading Pamela Druckerman's Bringing Up Bebe, Bear and I are trying to change our wicked ways...

 Yesterday Bear sat down a table and had a 3-course lunch = Mindful eating. Yahoo

 French kiddies do this everyday at la creche starting at 9 months.

 Watch David Turecamo's film for CBS on France's Gourmet School Lunches'. It will knock your socks off and prove the point Druckerman makes in Bringing up Bebe. French infants begin on a 4 times-a-day feeding schedule
(8 am - 12 noon - 4pm - 8pm)
Just like their parents. A sample creche.

 The concept of la formule offered at lunchtime restaurants is a replication of lunch at la creche/maternelle. Three-course meals a la Francais.

 Parents are encouraged to prepare vegetables many different ways so a child will taste ('just one bite') and experience a variety of foods. The first food infants get is pureed vegetables not rice.

 Do French kids eat sweets? Of course but at snack time/le gouter/4:30pm. Have you seen Fr kids walking around clutching bags of chips or cokes? Jamais. Snacking between meals is a non-non. No wonder French women are thin. Bear and I could hourly munch popcorn and marshmallows.

 Dessert at dinner is often fresh fruit or fruit compote. Have you noticed aisles of compote at the supermarket?

 Turn up at a Paris bistro at 7:30pm. You'll find it vide/empty.

 Come 8pm every seat is filled. The French do not forget their early training.

 Bear's breakfast today - we're eating a la Francais.

It ain't easy. Sometimes we get out our dolls and practice eating a table instead of in front of the 'puter.

Bon Chance!