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.
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 […]
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 […]
Ravital
Over Shavuos we had the incredibly humbling expereince of hosting 4 girls and their teacher from a school called Shalsheles. In my next post I’ll tell you more about them. Here, I let Ravital do all the talking… .
Video:Be a Smiler!
I can just see him, there by the door; his wife standing next to him as he waved good-bye to me. I was about to get married and this Rabbi said to me,”My wife is a Smiler. Be a Smiler.” I was young, so I smiled,and thought “Duh.Smiling? I got that one already! It’s simple, […]
Video:A Bubble for my Son
Last week at WOW, I was learning Nefesh Chaya with my friend Stephanie. Rav Pincus was talking about the hidden world. In the old days, seeing was believing. If you believed in something invisible you were backwards and superstitious. In modern times though, we know that most of what we call reality is hidden. […]
We’re in Good Hands!
I wrote this sometime last year. It’s amazing and astonishing to see how different our life looks now. We truly are on the next chapter. Nothing is too hard for G-d! Interestingly enough, I submitted this to two publications and both (who have published my writing before) turned it down. That was funny […]
