Originally Posted by ultramarina
I still hate the piece about why French kids don't get ADHD because their parents feed them dinner on a schedule and spank them. Lordy.

It is clearly a great way to prevent ADHD, of course (which is why there isn't much of it in France to start with), but beware, if you are too structured, then your child develops autism. Because cold mothering.

Or so say the French psychoanalysts, who also happen to be running most of the French psychiatry system.

(and yes, it is always the mother)

This is actually a great sniff test for "research" validity. If that "Bringing up bebe" is mentioned in an article talking about anything except the trend of making a quick buck by playing on the anxieties of the modern American parent, you know it is going to be crap.