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Forget annoying helicopter parents. Helicopter kids are way worse.
Jewish Journal
March 25, 2015
There are parents who hover over their kids like a helicopter. And there are parents who generally leave their kids to their own devices.
Bonding at Baby U
Jewish Journal
July 17, 2013
For new parents, having their first child can be scary, stressful and utterly stupefying.
Parenting: The Torah of motherhood
Jewish Journal
October 17, 2012
My road from twice-a-year Jew to Torah-study groupie took 40 years. With the heady days of the High Holy Days, Sukkot and Simchat Torah still fresh in my mind, it’s worth examining how I got here. During my youth, my family and I attended synagogue only during the High Holy Days. Even then, like most adolescents, no matter the Jewish preschool, Jewish summer camp, bat mitzvah or confirmation, the rabbi’s sermon was my cue to flee the sanctuary with my sister to find the other kids in the parking lot tearing into a purloined challah snatched from the synagogue kitchen.
High Holy Days: Father and son
Jewish Journal
September 5, 2012
On these High Holy Days, there will be empty seats in our synagogues. This is a letter found on one of those seats …
Kidsave changes lives for orphaned children, adoptive parents
Jewish Journal
July 19, 2012
Santiago Brown calls himself a “cashew.” It’s his way of combining the words “Catholic” and “Jew,” to refer to his unusual religious background. He lived in Colombia in a Catholic orphanage until being adopted into a Jewish family a year ago, at the age of 12. His mother, Lori Brown, a graphic artist and Nashuva member, says Santiago has Jewish music on his iPod and tells his friends, “It’s awesome to be Jewish.”
I can’t be the badly dressed mom at pickup time
Jewish Journal
April 4, 2012
Today, I stopped home to change my outfit before picking up my kid from day care.
You, with a kid
Jewish Journal
March 29, 2012
I’ll never forget asking my therapist the following question when I found out I was pregnant: “Who am I going to be?”
At Party Time: Candy is dandy — charity is sweeter
Sharon Duke Estroff
January 11, 2007
As my son\’s bar mitzvah day inched closer, I began to see the world in a whole different light — a disco ball light, to be exact — for as my child grew, so did his friends, officially putting us both on the b\’nai mitzvah circuit.
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