Discipline & Behavior, Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Skills A Witching Hour Guide Getting Safely — and Happily — from Kansas to Oz Do you dread the time between when your kids get home from school and dinnertime? Are... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills Understanding our Child’s Behavior with Empathy It’s sermon-writing time around our house. Being married to a rabbi during the months of August and September can be compared to... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Parenting Skills Let’s Hear It for the Dads! Twice yearly, I pay visit to my beloved redwoods along the coast or somewhere in the northern most part of our beautiful, diverse state.... Continue Reading
Birth - First Year, Parenting Skills, Toddlers And Baby Makes Four: Growing Your Family Your lives are about to change … again. This time, however, you’re more tired, more aware of the difficult early days of infancy,... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Skills 10 Ways to Learn in Your Own Backyard Many parents worry about summer slide, the learning loss that can occur while school is out for the summer. Great news: There is a... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills Parental Survival Post-Separation/Divorce Coming to terms with a separation or divorce and making an adjustment over the long run are processes. Just when you think you have it... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills “What about Me?” In the May 26, 2014 issue of The New Yorker, a cartoon by Paul Noth caught my eye. Two young adult women are sitting on a sofa, glasses... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Parenting Skills READY, SET, GO! Making the Most of the Summer before Kindergarten I remember getting up at 5:00 am and waiting in line in the dark to register my not yet 5-year-old daughter for an array of what seemed... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills How Not to Be “That Guy” You’ve seen him. He eagerly attends his kids’ games—and, unfortunately, yours’ as well—and suddenly fashions himself... Continue Reading
Parenting Skills Awareness and Attention: The Art of Observing Children When you are with your children, you are continuously observing them. Maybe you’re delightedly watching their play, maybe... Continue Reading
