http://www.frenchparents.com/editorials/eng Living and Surfing Bilingual in France, the US, and beyond with children Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:43:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A nice initiative from the writers and illustrators at Astrapi, a leading children's magazine for the 9 to 11 year old crowd, in the country that invented the concept 30 years ago: France, with Bayard Presse Publishing. Lulu, one of the star characters in a cartoon in the magazine, now ... http://www.frenchparents.com/editorials/eng/2008/lulu-a-character-from-the-popular-astrapi-childrens-magazine-in-france-has-a-popular-blog/ As with most things in France, other than buying a baguette and going to the restaurant, buying a house is much more complicated than in North America. FEES: There are fees of course: Homes are not all listed in all real estate agencies. I know of one network, ORPI, that lists its ... http://www.frenchparents.com/editorials/eng/2008/buying-a-house-in-france-not-easy/ Here are some books my children ( and us as parents) really enjoyed for our children, when they were between 4 and 7 years old. Apart from books we got a lot of great stories, quality illustrations and writing from magazines (which look like soft cover books really) published by Bayard ... http://www.frenchparents.com/editorials/eng/2008/good-books-in-french-for-4-to-7-year-olds/ When we were living in the US with our children, I was faced with the the task of preparing school lunches for my children ages 2 to 5. As one with some French culture in my background, I say you are what you eat, and eating nutritious, balanced and ... http://www.frenchparents.com/editorials/eng/2007/kids-school-lunches-french-style-lunch-ideas/ Yes you read it. Don't think because you're sending your kids to school in French schools they'll eat succulently cooked meals, as might be expected in the Terre of Haute Cuisine... School lunches are most often these days managed by large food catering companies like Avenance, Sodexho and another ... http://www.frenchparents.com/editorials/eng/2007/lunches-in-french-schools-are-a-shame-in-the-country-of-haute-cuisine/ They were envious, all of them.  Whether Parisians or Californians, they said: «  Hey you're pretty lucky to be moving to the south of France for work ».  The Marseille- Aix en provence region to be exact.  Yeah, I knew the area was sunny, gorgeous, with tons of shops and cultural ... http://www.frenchparents.com/editorials/eng/2007/moving-hell-in-the-south-of-france/ Moving is always an ordeal, in particular with a family. Emptying out our closests, packing up all our belongings, moving our treasured furniture, is hard enough. Some will say the positive side is all the cleaning out this sort of event leads to: the stuff we store, and ... http://www.frenchparents.com/editorials/eng/2007/please-messieurs-les-movers-be-nice/ The Tiburon Film Society will present the following film at the Bay Model located at 2100 Bridgeway in Sausalito [Phone: (415) 332.3871] on Thursday, September 6, 2007 @ 6 PM. Running Dry Running Time: 80 minutes Country: USA Genre: Documentary Narrator: Jane Seymour Director: Jim Thebaut Description:  "Running Dry" was inspired by the late ... http://www.frenchparents.com/editorials/eng/2007/fim-running-dry-from-the-tiburon-fim-society-in-sausalito-sept-6-2007/ Blogging may be successful today, however it seems there's still some elements of blogging that are not clear to all. So here are some definitions of terms and how tos. A blog: an interactive journal A blog is simply a site for articles that is very easy to edit because a tool ... http://www.frenchparents.com/editorials/eng/2007/whats-a-blog-some-explanations-of-rss-and-the-like/ Here's news about two good recent French movies playing in July in San Francisco.  The fact that they're jewish is not central to me, the fact they're good is! Description  and playdates from the French Alliance in San Francisco: Mauvaise foi (Bad Faith) Directed by: Roschdy Zem Language: French, English subtitles Clara and Ishmael are ... http://www.frenchparents.com/editorials/eng/2007/french-jewish-film-festival-in-san-francisco/