All the Jewish parenting news you probably didn’t have time to read this week.
- “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” was last week, but apparently, not a whole lot of people actually took their daughters and sons to work. (Jezebel)
- Turns out, riding down the playground slide with your child may be more dangerous then letting them go it alone. (NYT)
- Our girl Mayim Bialik was honored last Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League, who gave her a Deborah Award for being a “forward thinker.” But we already knew she was awesome. (Hollywood Reporter)
- Noninvasive, early fetal tests that can determine sex, paternity, and chromosomal conditions are currently under trials, but raise a whole slew of ethical concerns. (Slate)
- In your maybe, but probably and hopefully not news: the “Farewell Intercourse” proposal in Egypt would allow husbands to have sex with their dead wives for up to six hours after they’ve died. (Daily Mail)
- If you’ve got two minutes to spare, we highly recommend you check out this gem: Shel Silverstein singing “Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too”:
All the Jewish parenting news you probably didn’t have time to read this week.
- Israel’s “Mohel to the Stars” Rabbi Zarki is under fire for tweeting “Today I circumcised a baby with the smallest penis I’ve ever seen – a ‘micro penis.’” In an interview, he further explains that “Sometimes you see a baby that weighs four kilograms, where three of them are the penis and sometimes it’s only a few grams.”(Ynet)
- We’ve survived through another Tax Day, but you still may want to know a little more about one of the most commonly evaded taxes: the “nanny tax.” (The Sisterhood)
- Marjorie Ingall is not the biggest fan of the new movie “Bully,” but is a fan of the new programs that Jewish schools are trying out to raise awareness on this unfortunate phenomenon. (Tablet)
- For an example of a company getting it right, this Australian insurance group not only offers their employees three months of paid maternity leave, but gives a back-to-work bonus when the new mothers come back to work. (Jezebel)
All the parenting news you probably didn’t have time to read this week.
- Forbes asks: Is Modern Motherhood Working Against Women? Not according to one woman, the CEO of a tech company, who explains how she was able to be a business woman and make attachment parenting work for her family. (Forbes)
- For those who question just how busy stay-at-home moms really are, here’s a chronicle of a day in the life that will make you tired just reading it. (Shine)
- Laurel Snyder, Kveller contributer and author of Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to be Kosher, talks about raising her Jewish kids with religion, but not too much religion–i.e., they don’t keep kosher. (CNN)
- And for your daily dose of cute, here’s a baby who absolutely loves being vacuumed (Jezebel):
All the news you (probably) didn’t have time to read this week.
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-Lawmakers in Israel this week banned skinny models, or at least models that are too skinny from walking the runaway or appearing in advertisements and commercials. The law also requires magazines to note when they’ve used Photoshop to make models appear thinner. (Jezebel)
-In case you’re looking to go for a deluxe birth, check out this list of nine of the world’s most luxurious places to deliver a baby. We’ll be opting for Clinique des Grangettes in Switzerland where food is prepared by a chef with a Michelin star (insert joke about the crap food you were served after pushing a baby out of your vagina here). (Babble)
-Check out this beautiful pregnancy reduced down to a 90 second video (Buzzfeed)
-A father whose son has Down syndrome reflects on his son’s disease. A new non-invasive test will make it easy for women to find out as early as 10 weeks if the child she is carrying has the disease. (The Forward)
All the Jewish parenting news you probably didn’t have time to read this week.
- Sophie the Giraffe, the self-described “World’s Most Famous Baby Teething Toy” offers this seriously intense video of how the rubber toy is made, from the Malaysian forest to every Park Slope parent.
- New York parents should check out these free seminars from JUF on how to tell Jewish stories to your kids that teach and transmit Jewish values and traditions. (JUF)
- Emily Rapp does it again, this time writing about the amazing power of female friendship, and how it helps her deal with the horrors of her son’s Tay-Sachs diagnosis. (The Rumpus)
- Looking for some early Purim costume ideas? For the anniversary of Mahatma Ghandi’s death, 485 boys dressed up as Ghandi for a peace rally. The pictures are amazing and adorable. (Guardian)
- At Tablet, Marjorie Ingall asks, “How do we teach our kids about the Holocaust without scarring them for life?” The answer might be found in a few good books. (Tablet)
- At The Sisterhood, Gavriella Lerner reiterates the fact that when her husband is taking care of the kids, he is not “babysitting.” (Forward)
All the Jewish parenting news you probably didn’t have time to read this week.
- On Slate, one couple’s story of how to make a baby, the IVF way, accompanied by a very telling slideshow. (Slate)
- In Germany, a 13-pound baby was born. He was the 14th child of his 528-pound diabetic 40-year-old mother. But the real crazy part? His name is Jihad. (Babble)
- A new study suggests that if you want smarter kids, you should space them at least two years apart. It’s also not such a bad idea if you want any semblance of sanity. (Freakonomics)
- In the New York Times, Jennifer Gilmore offers a beautiful, stirring, and often painful look at her journey to adoption. (NYT)
- And Mickey and Minnie’s latest acquisition introduces us to “Peregrine,” “Samoset,” “Damaris”, and other baby names “inspired by the First Thanksgiving.” (Babble)
- Mississippi’s electorate voted down the so-called “personhood amendment,” which would have defined a fertilized egg as a person. Buoyed by anti-abortion activists, the measure would have effectively criminalized abortion, and could also have outlawed some forms of birth control and placed new restrictions on reproductive medicine. (The Washington Post)
- Fodder for the next Republican debate? A federal advisory committee is advising that 11- and 12-year-old boys be inoculated for HPV, a sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer and other cancers. Since 2006, the CDC has been recommending that girls, ages 11 and 12, receive the vaccination. (The New York Times)
- Children who receive what a Stanford researcher terms “process praise” (“You must have tried really hard”) are more resilient and less risk-averse than their peers who receive “person-based” praise (“You are really smart”), a new study shows. (Motherlode)
- The performance artist we told you about last week, the one who was planning to give birth before a crowd of gallery-goers, had her baby, inside Brooklyn’s Microscope Gallery. Clearly the mother, Marni Kotak, wasn’t using Kveller’s Jewish Baby Name Finder; she named her nine-pound, two-ounce son Ajax. (The Washington Post)
