“Parenting is a universal phenomenon, so it is hard to say that there is a Jewish way to parent”
Parenting is a universal phenomenon, so it is hard to say that there is a Jewish way to parent. There is no […]
Category: Parenthood
“What does it mean to be a hip-hop parent?”
What does it mean to be a hip-hop parent? For me, it means moving heaven and earth to protect my daughter from […]
“Our kids should never be more important than our marriage, and they should never be less important”
Our kids should never be more important than our marriage, and they should never be less important. If they’re more important, the […]
“…the women are super double tanked — that to be a modern, urbane woman means to be a serious drinker”
That’s the summer I realize that everyone around me is tanked. But it also dawns on me that the women are super […]
“…the more the children of the better-off were cherished, and pampered, the worse the treatment of the children of the poor appeared to be”
If Victorian- and Progressive-era middle-class moralists were newly concerned about the dead and dying babies of the poor, it was partly because […]
“… we’d do better to acknowledge the fact that women (and men, for that matter, though in a different way) change as a result of having children, and often do care less about work”
As a society, we’d do better to acknowledge the fact that women (and men, for that matter, though in a different way) […]
Kissing scenes in movies are “a great opportunity to talk about values around sex, normative feelings of desire and arousal, as well as how to teach about boundaries”
When you let kids watch violent scenes in a movie, but run to turn off the TV if there is a kissing […]
“Having a child feels like returning some measure of innocence to the world, and this is wonderful in its way”
Having a child feels like returning some measure of innocence to the world, and this is wonderful in its way; but we […]
“Two of Parental Love’s major active ingredients are fear and guilt”
I’m not going to sit here and pretend that I can provide you with a definition of parental love, but I will […]
“For a person whose suffering has been met with judgment, a sympathetic ear can make all the difference”
Given the ideology of parenting, it’s not surprising that we typically blame biology for the experience of postpartum depression. But the circumstances […]
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