Advance Praise for Ready, Set, Breathe

Ready, Set, Breathe: Practicing Mindfulness with Your Children for Fewer Meltdowns and a More Peaceful Family is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com and other online book sellers, and the advance praise is in. I couldn’t be more honored and thrilled by...

Catching My Breath

Author’s note: This is one of the most personal pieces I have ever written, and I’m honored and thrilled that it was published on Brain, Child’s blog. One. One degree. That’s what the weather app on my phone reported one morning this past winter as I...

How I Learned to Get the Most Out of Me Time

Before I had kids, I just didn’t think about self-care very often. I didn’t have to: When I wasn’t at work, my time was my own. If I needed to sleep, exercise, or hang out with my friends or husband, I just did it. That all changed after I became a...

Our Last Shabbat at Home

For the past five weeks, our family has gathered each Friday night to sing a blessing over an empty corner. We sold our small white china cabinet with the door that never quite closed properly a couple of weeks before we put our house on the market. We took down our...

I’m a (Recovering) Judgmental Mom

I have come to believe that there are two kinds of Jews: those who are always on time, and those who are never on time. I’m a yekke, a descendent of a long line of German Jews who believe that if you are on time, you’re actually five minutes late. I spent the early...