When the kids were younger, I could tell them what to eat, what to watch, when to go to bed and, in general, what they were doing and how they were going to do it. Read more…
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The Big “5-0” Focus on What Matters
When the kids were babies, I was often sleep deprived. I felt fuzzy a lot. My brain felt like it was half-working. I was desperate for sleep and clarity. I’d become forgetful. I’d leave my phone on top of the car and then drive away. I was always losing my prescription glasses. I couldn’t remember where I had been, so I couldn’t retrace my steps. Thankfully I never forgot one of the kids (OK, maybe there was that one time). Read more…
Bubby App Helps Find Love in the Tribe
Best friends Stephanie Volftsun, Sarah Persitz and Jordan Klein would often lament their dating lives. They’d had their share of love and heartbreak, and were tired of the online dating scene. Most dating apps are about “swiping and matching” and “the addictive thrill” of what comes next, Persitz said. She was more concerned about meeting a quality person who she would enjoy spending time with offline. Read more…
“Kind” Parenting in the Days of Hate
Published 66 years ago, “All-of-a-Kind Family” is my all-time favorite young-adult book. I read the entire series to my kids when they were younger. Read more…
Getting Older is Freeing, Especially When the Kids Provide Inspiration
Back to school night brings me back to frizzy hair and braces. To not fitting in. To my Lee jeans that I thought were incredibly cool and to the Guess Jeans that all the popular girls were wearing that made my Lee jeans suddenly look very dorky.
Can High Holidays Bring Go-With-The-Flow Summer Mom Back?
love summer. I’m a go-with-the-flow mom during the summer. When the last day of school ends in June, I think I’m more relieved that my kids that the school year is over. Summer mom gets to take over for three long months. Yippee! Read more…
There Goes the Neighborhood – And Childhood
Eunice’s Cafe closed a few years ago. Then, shortly after, the hardware store next to Eunice’s went out of business. Brooks Shoes shut its doors for good a few weeks ago, and the place where the kids used to get their haircuts, Snippety Crickets, closed recently too. Read more…
Raising Tough Kids Not Easy for Parent with Fretting Instinct
There are so many new parenting books on the market dispensing advice about how to raise strong, resilient and independent kids. I’m sure they’re great, but I won’t be buying any of them.
I read Wendy Mogel’s “The Blessing of a Skinned Knee” when my kids were toddlers. I haven’t needed to read another parenting book since. Read more…
Parenting from the Inside: Who Best to Give Parenting Advice-Check the Mirror
I often feel overwhelmed by all the weeknight meetings and events at my kid’s school, all the parenting books that remind me of all the ways I’m parenting wrong, and all the authors on book tours who come and tell us in person everything we’re doing wrong.
In San Francisco, Bringing Single Jewish Mothers Into the Circle
According to a recent article by Rebecca Traister in New York Magazine, single adult women now outnumber married women in the U.S. Single women, Traister tells us, “are now leading full professional, economic, social, sexual, and parental lives on their own.” They’ve also become a powerful force in this year’s election.
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