Yona Zeldis McDonough
Mehta’s poems are miniaturist examinations of art, aging, literature, grief, parenting, the sublime, labor, and faith.
Diane Mehta’s Miniaturist Poetry
Tag: parenting
Can the Torah Teach Us How to Parent?
Mikhal Weiner
Alicia Jo Rabins on her newest multidimensional work of meditation and love.
“Parenting With An Accent:” American Immigrants Bring Up Their Kids
Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
This book is as much ethnographic study as it is an affirmative and therapeutic examination of identity, and what it means to pass that identity forward.
A Mom, Not a Superhero: Debi Lewis On “Kitchen Medicine”
Mikhal Weiner
Parents break sometimes, and we put ourselves back together. But if we never see any stories of other people doing it, it makes us feel like monsters.
Back-to-School Blues and Our Rush to Return to Normal
Sarah M. Seltzer
I don’t know how to handle small worries anymore.
“I’m Not a Natural Caretaker.”
Eleanor J. Bader
Rachel Michelberg on caretaking, gender, and societal assumptions.
It’s the First Day of School. Institutions Are Failing Our Kids.
Sharon Meiri Fox
Sadly, I cannot hide my disappointment in the system from my children.
I Told Our Son He Can’t Come Home
Andrea Kott
How mindlessly I licked their melting ice cream cones and fallen lollipops. Even when they were sick, especially when they were sick, I held them close. Now, we can’t even touch.
As a Male Rabbi, I Plan to “Lean In” to Childcare
Rabbi Joshua Stanton
I enter this Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year, filled with trepidation about what I might do, or fail to do, when a new baby enters our lives. We both plan to continue working and will do our best to co-parent. But I fear that my failure to lean into parenting will ruin Mirah’s career.
Is Midge Maisel a Bad Mom? A Feminist Query.
Sara Fredman
To criticize Midge’s parenting just when she is finding her voice is to miss the point of the show entirely.