by Carla Naumburg | Sep 17, 2015 | Kveller.com
Holy crap, you guys. I cooked with my kids. And it was AWESOME. The kind of awesome that gives you faith in your children and the future of humanity and makes you think for just one tiny second that perhaps you aren’t screwing up this whole parenting thing nearly as...
by Carla Naumburg | Sep 11, 2015 | Scary Mommy
If you read the studies and listen to the experts, family dinner is crucial. Children who gather ‘round the table each night with their parents are smarter, kinder, more capable, better looking and more likely to run a successful hedge fund once they graduate from an...
by Carla Naumburg | Sep 9, 2015 | Kveller.com
I cannot name all of the months in the Jewish year, but I can tell you that we are currently in the month of Elul. I’ve known for awhile now that these last weeks of summer are a time of reflection and teshuvah (a word that is often translated as repentance, but I...
by Carla Naumburg | Aug 28, 2015 | Seleni
My daughters start first grade and kindergarten this year. My Facebook feed is filled with smiling children holding up signs stating the date and their upcoming grade. Every store I enter is filled with back-to-school displays. And every parenting magazine makes it...
by Carla Naumburg | Aug 25, 2015 | Kveller.com
From the full post over at Kveller.com: “I envision The Jewish Mother Project as a cross between Abigail Pogrebin’s blog on the Jewish Daily Forward, “18 Holidays: 1 Wondering Jew” and “The Happiness Project” by Gretchen Rubin. I’ll spend the year diving more...