Purim Prep: Son Becomes King A
Beaming, our 3-year-old son marched in our temple Purim parade last year in his homemade Halloween costume – a cow. This year, I could have...
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Not Alone: Parents of Teens Find Support and Gain Insight
In 2011, Hebrew College and CJP’s Commission on Jewish Life and Learning piloted three Parenting Your Teen... Through a Jewish Lens classes—at Temple Isaiah, Lexington; Temple...
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Parents Share Resolutions for the New Year
With 2012 upon us, we asked a handful of parents about their most important kid-related goals for the New Year. True, we already celebrated the...
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Defying Gravity
Thirteen is better than three. I know I’m in the minority here but I’m sorry, it’s true. While trying to weather K’s three year old...
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Love and Bonding
While talking to some college students recently, I recalled the challenges I had in bonding with my youngest daughter when she was a newborn. I...
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Fear, Faith, Fertility and Thanksgiving
With Thanksgiving coming up just days after the next JBN Birth Circle, at Temple B’nai Brith in Somerville, it seems like the theme should have...
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Lifecycles
It Takes A Village
I read a post the other day from a blog called A Diary of a Mom written by a woman named Jess. Jess is the...
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Parenting a teenager is a "cycle of life" experience
It behooves synagogues to understand and address the needs of parents of teens. Staff and lay leaders ought to know individual parents; they ought to...
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Simple Joys of Slings and Sukkos
Sukkot starts this Wednesday night, coincidentally in the middle of International Babywearing Week 2011. Sukkot is one of my favorite holidays. It’s a time when...
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What's up with that Glee?
While watching Glee with K, I had a Fox and the Hound moment. An F and H moment is an unexpectedly upsetting occurrence in a...
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