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Category: Inspire

  • The ugliest feeling

    I often joke that becoming a mother turned me into a woman. That is if your definition of “woman” means someone who is emotional. Obviously, women and men can each have a varying degree of sensitivity, but I digress. Point is, before my first pregnancy, I was much more likely…

  • Yes, our kids can have a better world

    A few days ago, I was chatting with my husband about how amazing it was that our kids have never known a country where there wasn’t a black president and could potentially be a woman president. (Full disclosure, I did not vote for Barack Obama for a second term, and…

  • An amateur guide to potty-training in 5 (mostly) stress-free steps

    The title of this post should be clear enough, but just in case, let me begin by stating that I am in no way, shape or form an expert on child elimination strategy . I am just a mom sharing her experiences with potty training her own kid, in the…

  • Playground rejection and the importance of consent

    My three-year-old loves playing with other kids, probably because he spends the majority of his time with me and his one-year-old brother, and that isn’t always a recipe for good times. He craves interaction with other children, and would probably live at the park if I let him. He has…

  • What’s in a number?

    Judaism is a religion of numbers. Every aspect of life is marked by an important numerical value. We wait eight days to celebrate the birth of a baby boy. We find our moral code in the ten commandments. We read from the five books of the Torah. At Passover, we…

  • Girls will fight with their Barbies, and boys will cuddle their G.I. Joes

    Growing up as a girl in America, my life was full of Barbies. Though my memory is somewhat foggy, I am confident I had close to a hundred over the course of my childhood. I loved my Barbies. I loved dressing them in the best of late 80s fashion. I…

  • Enough with the buts

    I’m a stay-at-home mom, but I don’t spend every second with my kids. I went back to work, but I check in as often as I can. I use formula, but I really wanted to breastfeed. I nurse my two-year-old, but only sometimes. I share a bed with my child,…

  • This one little thing helped my son eat better

    My three-year-old, like most three-year-olds, is, shall we say, particular, when it comes to food. He wasn’t always this way. When he first began eating solid food, he would consume anything put in front of him. And my smug self thought I had birthed the perfect little gourmand.

  • Having kids made me love my body

    There are a lot of beautiful stories to encourage mothers to embrace every extra pound, to view every stretch mark as a badge of honor, to see the joy in the jiggle of excess skin. These stories remind us that the loss of our figures is well worth the happiness…

  • Why Marissa Mayer is a bad example for men

    Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is pregnant again, this time with identical twin girls, and just as she did with her first child, the mogul announced she will be taking limited time off after the twins are born and working throughout her pregnancy. Mayer, who assumed her role at Yahoo while…