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Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate, a lawyer, and host of Slate's podcast, Amicus: Law, Justice, and the Courts. She's also one seriously badass Jewish mom who favors the "benign neglect"… method of parenting. This week on Call Your Mother, Jordana Horn and Shannon Sarna get the chance to speak with the Supreme Court expert about everything from not forcing religious beliefs on your kids, her time in living in Charlottesville (yes, that Charlottesville, and how she grapples with the violent, white supremacist events that took… >> Read More

School

Here’s What the College Admissions Scandal Says About Us — Not Celebrities

Jordana Horn

“All College Admissions Are A Pay-To-Play Scandal!” “A slew of CEOs charged in college entrance cheating scam!” “The College-Admission Scandal and the Warped Fantasy of the American… Scam.” That’s just a smattering of the headlines that have been blowing up the internet, ever since the news broke yesterday of a massive scandal in which hundreds of well-to-do parents paid to have people take standardized tests for their children and gave bribes to college coaches to “recruit” their children, among other decidedly non-kosher activities...all… >> Read More

parenting

Having Kids Will Age You. Then Again, Maybe It Won’t.

Jordana Horn

I’m 45, and now that I’ve been a mom for 15 ½ years, I’ve shed a lot of the naiveté I brought to the parenting table when I first got here. One of the many, many ways in which I have changed… as a parent is that I now bring a healthy dose of skepticism to “scientific studies” of parenting. For example, take a study conducted three years ago — and more recently making the rounds on social media — that reportedly shows how the more children a woman gives birth to, the slower her cells are… >> Read More

holocaust

How My Visit to Auschwitz Made Me a Better Mom

Louise Scodie

I recently visited Auschwitz. It was an experience so profound, so upsetting, and so mind-blowing that I still cannot quite process that I was even there. I am still coming to terms with what I saw… and learned there and I will be for some time. But one thing I do know already: My visit to Auschwitz has made me a better mother. Auschwitz is like no place I have ever been to before, and no place I ever want to see again. I was there on a trip with my… >> Read More

technology

It’s Time to Teach Our Tweens Some Super-Basic Phone Manners

Zibby Owens

I think the iPhone should come with an instruction manual that’s required reading. It isn’t enough to know how to connect to Wifi or how to Facetime five people at once — it’s equally… important to understand how to communicate with other humans in a decent, which isn’t intuitive to new users (i.e., tweens). If you’re going to cave and give your kids phones before they’re mature enough to use them — like, um, I did — then it’s important that somebody teach them the rules. (For what… >> Read More

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