children
Les enfants magnifiques
Beneath the many contrasts Pamela Druckerman draws between French and U.S. children is a deeper one between the two societies.
What child is this?: Isaiah 7:10-16; Matthew 1:18-25
My extended family once had so many males named Frederick that the women in the family assigned each of us a number so the tribe could distinguish between us at family reunions. I became Fred IV. A casual observer might have thought that we considered ourselves royalty, or perhaps a line of renegade popes.