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We have the luxury, or the hindrance, of having one of the best children’s hospitals within an hour’s drive. The good news is that we have some of the best doctors in the world that are able to… work with our 6-year-old daughter. The bad news is that everyone else in the world wants to work with those doctors, too. When we are told by our doctors that our little girl—diagnosed at age 5 with Aicardi Goutières Syndrome, which causes her brain to atrophy—needs to be seen again in three months, but that they… >> Read More

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I Will Not Push My Kids To Be The Best In School

Michelle Dickstein

Academic success was always of the utmost importance in my youth, and the pinnacle I was heading for was earning a degree in medicine or law. It seems like it’s a Jewish mother’s dream to… announce that her child is either a doctor or lawyer (or is marrying one of the two). As a youngster, I didn’t care if I had to get tutors over the summer or come in an hour early or stay late to meet with my teacher for extra help. I wanted to be the best.… >> Read More

Daughters

The New Mother-Daughter Tradition I Started

Michelle Dickstein

On a recent weekend, my family of five drove 17 hours to pick up my childhood bedroom furniture from my mother’s house. It has been sitting in pristine condition for over 30 years, in the same… exact room I slept in from the age of three. Now, my three-year-old twins are newly potty trained, so they have earned the freedom to use the facilities at all hours. This means we can no longer keep them in their baby cages (ahem, cribs). And as it goes with multiples, you need to buy… >> Read More

School

“Mom, I’ve Got This. Do You?”

Rabbi Nicole Guzik

Close Up Of Mother And Daughter Leaving For School

We recently received the “call.” My daughter’s new kindergarten teacher called to introduce herself and schedule a time to meet our family. The teacher could not have been lovelier. She could… not be more nurturing, caring, or calming. With every raised concern, she assured me that I was already doing everything as a parent to prepare my daughter for her entrance into elementary school. When we hung up the phone, however, my husband easily transitioned to checking emails, while I sat for over an hour questioning.… >> Read More

Dads

This Windex Commercial About a Girl and Her Dad Will Give You the Feels

Joanna C. Valente

Who knew you could get so emotional watching a Windex commercial? (Well, maybe if you watched "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," you'd have a soft spot for Windex.) For its latest “Give Life a… Sparkle,” campaign, the cleaning solution company tugs at all the right heartstrings, showing a girl grow up. The video starts with the girl's father looking through a window in a hospital into the room with his newborn daughter. Then, he switches to him on a boat for work, then his daughter growing up into a… >> Read More

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