News & Updates
How to Stop Freaking Out : The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Cool When Life Gets Chaotic publishes on September 10, 2024 and I’m so freaking (haha!) excited to share it with all of you!
For more details about my first book for kids, head over to the book page or scroll down for a list of podcasts.
Hanna Rosin Dissed Mindful Parenting Because She Doesn’t Understand It
On January 13, Hanna Rosin wrote a piece on Slate's Double X blog titled "Crap, I Forgot to Be Mindful Again: How the mindful parenting movement is setting parents up to fail." I wrote a response to the post on my Mindful Parenting blog, which included this paragraph:...
My 2014 Resolution: A Compassionate Mess
I love New Year’s Resolutions. I love the possibility of a fresh start. A new chance at a new me. THIS will finally be the year when I lose the weight, meditate and do yoga every single day, stop yelling, and become a New York Times bestselling author. This is the...
On Our Tenth Anniversary, Discovering a New Meaning of Faith
We got married on Sunday, December 7, 2003. (Yeah, yeah, I know, the Day That Will Live in Infamy. In our case, it was more like the Day That the Rabbi Was Available.) It was a sunny, beautiful day, with nearly three feet of snow on the ground. One of the largest...
Enough With the Bad Mother Talk
I’m really good at the bad mother talk. Any of you (fathers included) who have spent any time at all hanging out with other parents or inside your own brain likely know what I’m talking about. Sometimes it’s the sarcastic, self-deprecating, but mildly humble-brag (as...
An Open Letter to Parenting Experts
As part of the research I’ve been doing for the parenting book I’m currently writing, I’ve been reading and listening to a lot of your opinions over the past several weeks. While most of you have lots of useful advice and reasonable suggestions, the truth is that...
Eating Peas on the Kitchen Floor: Mindful Parenting at Dinner Time
“Don’t eat that pea. DO NOT EAT THAT PEA. That is MY PEA and you are NOT allowed to eat it…. YOU ATE THE PEA!!” That’s what was going on in my house last night. My daughters and I were sitting on the kitchen floor, digging leftover steamed peas, broccoli, and...
I’m Buying My Girls a Bunch of Plastic Toys for Hanukkah & I Don’t Even Feel Guilty
Two years ago, I wrote these words in a post for Kveller: “We’re trying something new this year. Instead of giving gifts, we’re going to focus on experiences that honor Hanukkah for what it is, and don’t try to make it into something it’s not.” Last year, I wrote a...
Mindful Parenting: Moving Beyond a Difficult Childhood
In my last post, I wrote about why parenting when you were under-parented can be so hard. It’s harder because those of us who grew up in chaotic homes may want to raise our children in drastically different ways, which means we’re basically reinventing parenthood as...
