Family, Jewish, Parenthood “Parenting is a universal phenomenon, so it is hard to say that there is a Jewish way to parent” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 August 2017 Parenting is a universal phenomenon, so it is hard to say that there is...
Hip-Hop, Parenthood “What does it mean to be a hip-hop parent?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 July 2017 What does it mean to be a hip-hop parent? For me, it means moving...
Family, Marriage, Parenthood “Our kids should never be more important than our marriage, and they should never be less important” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 June 2017 Our kids should never be more important than our marriage, and they should never...
Alcoholic Drinks, Gender, Motherhood “…the women are super double tanked — that to be a modern, urbane woman means to be a serious drinker” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 September 2016 That’s the summer I realize that everyone around me is tanked. But it also...
Parenthood “…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” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 September 2016 If Victorian- and Progressive-era middle-class moralists were newly concerned about the dead and dying...
Business, Gender, Parenthood “… 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” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 August 2015 As a society, we’d do better to acknowledge the fact that women (and men,...
Movies, Parenthood 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” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 December 2014 When you let kids watch violent scenes in a movie, but run to turn...
Parenthood “Having a child feels like returning some measure of innocence to the world, and this is wonderful in its way” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 August 2014 Having a child feels like returning some measure of innocence to the world, and...
Parenthood “Two of Parental Love’s major active ingredients are fear and guilt” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 August 2014 I’m not going to sit here and pretend that I can provide you with...
Parenthood “For a person whose suffering has been met with judgment, a sympathetic ear can make all the difference” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 July 2014 Given the ideology of parenting, it’s not surprising that we typically blame biology for...