by Carla Naumburg | Sep 12, 2019 | How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t With Your Kids, Kveller.com
We Jews are not a solitary lot. We come together to pray, welcome new life, mourn our losses, celebrate our holidays, and raise our children. They say it takes a village to raise a child — and I say it takes a shtetl to stay sane while we raise said child. Oh, and...
by Carla Naumburg | Sep 8, 2017 | Kveller.com
I lost it with my kid yesterday. My mom-meltdown happened just minutes before I herded both of the girls outside for our annual first-day-of-school ritual. It went a little something like this: “Ok, you stand here, no, not there, over there, OK, good, now you get next...
by Carla Naumburg | Aug 24, 2017 | Kveller.com
Sometimes I put a pair of cotton princess underwear on my head before I wake up my daughters in the morning. Sometimes I recite their breakfast options in a ridiculous French accent. I smear bubbles across my face while I’m giving them a bath and tell them absurd...
by Carla Naumburg | Apr 6, 2017 | Kveller.com
“Remind me again when you have work calls today?” My husband has already answered that question at least twice this morning, but I am too distracted by my own mental Tetris to hear his response. I have clients at 10 and 11, and a meeting at 1. I can call into the...
by Carla Naumburg | Mar 22, 2017 | Kveller.com, Writing
The first night of Passover is in less than three weeks. I am dreading it. It’s not the cleaning or the clearing or the shopping or the schlepping that has me burying my head in the sand. It’s not the planning for, cooking for, or hosting the Seder. And it’s not even...
by Carla Naumburg | Nov 9, 2016 | Kveller.com
Like so many of you, I woke up to deeply distressing election results, and a Facebook feed full of parents asking how to share the news with their children. Here’s how I had this difficult conversation with my daughters, who are currently 8 and 6 years old. First, I...
