This March, in honor of Woman’s History month, I decided to blog about Alpha Girls: Understanding the New American Girl and How She Is Changing the World by Dan Kindlon. …
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I needed Naptime Is the New Happy Hour by Stephanie Wilder-Taylor ten years ago when my first daughter was born. Her book about all the “ways toddlers turn your life…
When Erin Redmond’s daughter Olivia was born, she was a beautiful baby. But as she developed, her mom was troubled by her lack of speech. While most babies are forming…
The news of a new baby is accompanied by a range of emotions, from excitement to anxiousness, with a lot of questions in between, shared by new parents, experienced parents,…
Aidyn was all set to start big kid school. He could identify his ABCs and counting to thirty was a piece of cake. Kindergarten registration and open house had gone…
Since secular individuals do not believe in Divinity or Its intervention to make sense of the world, they are “faced with the job of creating meaningful lives” for themselves, explains…
In October 2010, I blogged about Wendy Mogel’s The Blessings of a B Minus, which is a book largely based on Jewish teachings. Then, in December of 2010, I featured…
Just recently, our family incurred some new expenses – the kind related to having a teenager about to get her driver’s license.As we contemplated the increased costs of insurance, gas,…
With schools spending billions on technology while simultaneously cutting funding for the arts and physical education, Jane M. Healy, author of Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds…
I had many laugh out loud moments while reading Robin O’Bryant’s book, Ketchup is a Vegetable and Other Lies Mothers Tell Themselves. My favorite chapter, by far, was “Eff the…
Bullying is all about perceived power. What messages are you sending to your kids about kindness, empathy, tolerance, and accepting differences?
