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In France, parents do not cater to children. You can walk through a playground, a department store, or any bakery and you will hear a hundred times, “C’est moi qui décide.” It is me who decides. French parents expect a sense of hierarchy and a respect from their children. You give them the answers and they accept them.
was a very happy time in my life, and that was an important lesson too: to learn how little it took to be happy, to understand from a young age that the human heart is a small and delicate vase. You must handle it carefully, but in the right circumstances, it does not take much to fill it up.
