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May 9 2013
Can Moms & Dads Be “Just Friends?”
We talk a lot here at Kveller about mom friends. Where to find them, how to make them, the care and feeding of… The ritual of proper playground hook-up etiquette has become a mating dance of its own, with questions … Continue reading →
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Apr 29 2013
Back to the Daily Grind After Seven Years
I am writing this blog post on the 5:55 a.m. train from Manhattan heading to Stamford, CT (after having taken two subways to get to Grand Central Station, first). Because, for the first time since before my daughter was born, … Continue reading →
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Apr 11 2013
Why I Wouldn’t Let My Son be Labeled Special Needs
My oldest son didn’t really talk until he was almost 3. He said a couple of words, like “ite” for “light” and the requisite “Mama” and “Dada,” but he didn’t string them together into sentences, which he should have been … Continue reading →
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Apr 10 2013
How I Pretty Much Raised My Brother
I had my oldest son a few months before I turned 30. Not young in the majority of the world. Not even particularly young in the United States. On the Upper West Side of New York, however, when I asked … Continue reading →
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Mar 19 2013
What to Watch This Passover
We have a Passover family tradition at our house. Every spring, whenever the holiday happens to fall (seriously, 2013? End of March?), a few days beforehand, the kids and I watch “The Prince of Egypt.” This DreamWorks animated film released … Continue reading →
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Mar 12 2013
Sometimes, Bribing Your Kids Just Works
Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of: Alina Tries to Make Her Kids Speak Russian. (To learn why I want them to speak Russian, read my previous post here.) I thought I’d found the answer when I discovered JAR-Ptitsa: … Continue reading →
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Feb 13 2013
A Soviet Immigrant Mother’s Take on “The Americans”
My parents and I immigrated to the United States from the then-Soviet Union in 1977. My father is a staunch anti-Communist. He is also a very cryptic, closed off man (teddy bear rescues aside). As a result, my brother and … Continue reading →
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Feb 11 2013
DIY Purim Costumes So Easy a Child Could Make Them
Last year, I wrote about my first Purim in the United States, when I was convinced that only a store-bought costume could make me a true American. My native-born oldest son, on the other hand, has no such hang-ups. To … Continue reading →
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Jan 30 2013
My 6-Year-Old’s Baby Talk is Driving Me Crazy
My daughter turned 6 in January. She’s been going to kindergarten since September, and three years of preschool before that. She can bathe herself and put on her own coat and set the table for dinner and literally shimmy up … Continue reading →
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Jan 28 2013
What Kids’ Cartoons Teach About Intermarriage
Elana Gartner’s piece about “adjusting” the fairy tales she tells her son and daughter reminded me of how my poor children are forced to bear the brunt of my Master’s in Media Analysis every time they watch a movie or … Continue reading →
