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Parenting
My Mother’s Warfare Against Aesthetics
My mother was a fierce, stubborn, hard-working woman. She was also a woman who cared about her appearance and deeply internalized the aesthetic pressures on women.
Oh baby, baby: Five options for dealing with babies on the High Holy Days
Q&A with Betsy Brown Braun — Hollywood’s go-to parenting guru
\” . . . I\’d met so many parents who are talented career people, but can be humbled to their knees by a 4-year-old. They\’d say, \’Betsy, what do I say? What do I do? Help!\’ — so I offer actual scripts that can be a starting point for parents . . . \’
Iranian American Jews mentoring new generation of leaders
\”It\’s amazing. It\’s awesome,\” Nicole Lavi said. \”I have an older \’sister.\’\”
Dark currents surface in surfing clan’s idyllic life
A nice Jewish doctor decides his family must live on in a camper and surf . . . all the time; and here\’s the documentary to prove it
Our family’s journey to make sure our special son was included
As soon as they put him on my belly, I knew. I looked at his eyes, and they were a bit puffy, as is normal after a regular delivery, but I knew.
My husband, Mark, said he looked perfect, with all fingers and toes accounted for. I kept asking if he was all right; he was our second child, after all, and I knew he wasn\’t, because a mother knows.
Mark kept believing everything was OK until he followed the nurses down to the nursery, and they asked for pediatricians to come in. Nurses attended to our first born, Jason — not doctors.