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I am nursing my 7-week-old son as I work my chopsticks around my plate of eggplant with my free hand. My husband is holding our other twin, who is clearly ready for his dinner as well. Meanwhile, our… toddler sits next to me, methodically taking the ice out of his drink and putting it on the table. I’m sweating profusely from a combination of the spicy food, postpartum hormones, having an infant squished up against my skin under my nursing scarf, and the fact that we are being scolded by the manager of… >> Read More

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5 Tips for Making a Big Move Easier on Your Kids

Melissa Henriquez

Of all the news a parent could possibly have to tell his or her children, an impending cross-country move is surely toward the bottom on the overall pain scale. Yet here I was, fretting about having… to tell our kids, ages 5 and 8, that the life they know and love is about to change in a major way. For the previous month, my husband and I had been keeping a big secret: his work team was being asked to transfer from our small Midwestern city to the Dallas area this… >> Read More

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This Jewish Family Is Traveling to Literally Every Single Country

Arielle Kaplan

What would you do to make it into The Guinness Book of World Records? Eat an absurd amount of bagels? Jump rope for days on end? Grow your nails so long that they drag on the floor? Travel to every… single country in the world? The last one might be incredibly expensive and time-consuming, but it’s exactly what one Jewish family intends on doing. Justin Zackham, a screenwriter who literally coined the term “bucket list,” is currently attempting this feat. But he's not doing it alone — Zackham and his wife, Katherine, are traveling with… >> Read More

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Here’s What Happens When Your Kid Is Elected Class Clown

Judith T. Krauthamer

As parents, we spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about our child’s academic prowess and popularity. So how would you feel if your kindt was elected class clown? Well, I can tell you how I… when it happened to me: confused and concerned, which are precisely the emotions you’d expect to arise when your child wins (by popular vote!) a title that does not include the words “success,” “achievement,” or “honor.” The word “clown” actually frightened me, perhaps because I had high hopes my offspring would be thought of as… >> Read More

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Yiddish ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Producer Tells Us Why the Show Means So Much to Parents

Linda Buchwald

You’ve probably seen the musical Fiddler on the Roof at some point — or, perhaps, dozens of points — in your life. Either the 1971 movie starring Topol, one of numerous Broadway stagings, a… regional production, at your child's school, or maybe even all of the above. But, chances are, you probably haven't seen it done the way it's being done right now in New York City at Stage 42: in Yiddish, the language Tevye and his family would have spoken, had they and their shtetl, Anatevka, been real.… >> Read More

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