5 Tips For Raising Successful Teens
They’re strong, persuasive, moody, and energetic, and they’re desperate to find themselves. What do our teens really want and need from us?
In this video, I give you my BEST tips for raising your teens with ease and joy.
Like Mother, Like Daughter
One thing about being a mother that never ceases to amaze me is how our kids are always watching us. Always. Their antenna is always on and picking up signals from us. Forget Mommy, I’m thinking it would be more helpful is they just called me RM. No, not Rivka Malka, that’s RM for Role […]
Why We Watch the Superbowl
So, I’ll be honest , I’m not a fan of the Superbowl. (Don’t throw tomatoes at me!) But every year, the Perlman clan has the most over the top Superbowl party in the neighborhood. We started around 4 years ago. Our boys were in middle school and suddenly football was a big deal. In general […]
The Third Alternative
The Third Alternative is an alternate universe that is waiting for us to visit her. It’s a place of arriving, a place of surrendering control and being open, not only to possibilities, but to the possibility that there are so many possibilities you haven’t even begun to fathom. They say, “You teach what you need […]
Camping Trip Pics and Update
Hi everyone, THANK YOU for the seriously excellent insightful comments on my last post. Writing it out and sharing the process with you put me in such a great frame of mind on this trip. It was one of the best vacations of my life. Processing all the weirdness before I ever got n […]
I’m Disconnecting for About a Week
Today I’m going camping. I think they call it glamping – as in “glamorous camping” because we’ll be in cabins and have electricity. But I’ll be away. This trip is epic because all 8 siblings from my husbands side and their families will be there. Were getting together from Israel, […]
Neshama Learns about Hope
Our eight year old Neshama is an angel. She’s playful, spiritual, insightful and a tomboy. She’s also dyslexic. This year has been beyond hard for her. Being left back in first grade means that the kids in her class are a year younger than her. That’s hard. and even with that reading hasn’t […]
Touch – and It’s Magic
This post is about an extraordinary night. If this happened all the time I wouldn’t be writing about it. Like you, I’m generally in 6 places at once with barely enough time for basic life tasks. Please don’t get the wrong idea – I’m not mom of the year – I’m just really […]
Mudfight!
We arrived at Patabsco River at 2:30 in the afternoon. The kids had been itching to go after being home all morning while I was out. In under two minutes, the kids were in their bathing suits and swimming happily. I stood at the edge of the river, my eyes darting back and forth […]
Catching Up!
I haven’t posted in so long and I have so much to catch you up on. It’s amazing how much life goes on in three weeks. There was so much I was going to write about that’s just flown by! Like,the three little kittens were born on our porch this week. And how my […]
