Reaching New Haights
In that funky old Synergy School — now a Noe Valley laundromat — we could do what we wanted (unless it involved littering or hurting someone\’s feelings).
In that funky old Synergy School — now a Noe Valley laundromat — we could do what we wanted (unless it involved littering or hurting someone\’s feelings).
Until children reach a certain age, parents seethem simply as beloved offspring. Flesh of their flesh. Withbittersweet nostalgia, they remember all, from the Gerber days tograduation day.
But then it happens: the transformation.
Where does a parent — a Jewish mother — begin a frank consideration of her daughter\’s sexuality? As the Zen master says, you have to start from where you are, and then let it flow.
My son, Jason,called the other day and jokingly said that I didn\’t keep myword.
I\’ve been a single parent a long time now. I knowa lot about it. When Jewish organizations need a speaker on single parenting, they often ask me — and I\’ll be at the Westside Jewish Community Center this Sunday for the daylong conference, \”Creating Family Life as a Single Parent,\” sponsored by Jewish Family Service\’s new Jewish Single Parent Network (818-762-8800.)\n
What do Jewish educators think about Jewish parents?
Adolescence seems to have heightened Debra\’s fixation on herbiological origins. She asks probing questions about her birthparents. She wants to know whether her birth mother was Jewish, andwhether there are brothers and sisters somewhere. Such questions arepainful to the Rubins, who\’d rather not spell out all they know aboutthe sad, sordid circumstances of Debra\’s birth.