NJP #13
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Editor’s Note: The Shabbos Parade / Yael Resnick
Feeling the love as the world walks by our window.
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REAL LIFE
What’s a Good Jewish Mother Like You Doing in Versailles? On Being an Observant, Nursing Mother in the Fast Lane / Viva Hammer
“I wrote an e-mail to the Big Boss, giving him all the gory details including nursing, and Shabbos, and Jewish law in both areas.”
Help, My House Hs Been Invaded by 7-Year-Olds! / Yehuda Hoffman
“Just when I’m looking forward to my break for the night… the chatter begins.”
Real Illumination / Chava Dumas
“Right before dinner last night, the light-bulb in the bathroom blew out…”
Malka’s Birthday / Rachel Greenberg
“The birthday girl began to cry from all the commotion in the over-crowded sukkah. Then I remembered the party bags.”
Taking Motilium / Tzippora Price
“Instead of asking for healing, I ask Hashem to allow this medication to increase my capacity for giving.”
Praying My Way to Nursery School / Chana Weisberg
“The reason I’m writing about all this is that today I had a terrible morning with my kids that made me cry and despair of my abilities as a mother.”
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Fun, Unplugged: Quiet Games for a Long Shabbos Afternoon / Yael Resnick
Kosher & Healthy: News, Fast Food (recipe), Lunchbox Inspiration
Torah & Nature and Tikkun Tip / Teva Learning Center
Practical Guidelines for Gentle Discipline / Leib Kelemen
“The goal is to stop the misbehavior while doing as little damage as possible to the parent-child relationship.”
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SPECIAL SECTION: Take Good Care of Yourself
Making the Moments Count / Yael Resnick
“Your children need to see a role model for womanhood and motherhood that includes health and fulfillment. Depriving yourself is also depriving them of the complete you.”
Because It’s a Mitzvah! / Sarah Zeldman
“Notice, the Eishes Chayil doesn’t run around in the biblical equivalent of an old sweatsuit. She simply treats herself as well as she treats the other people in her life.”
Pathways to Self-Nurturing / Lilly Rublin-Sokoloff
“Different pathways with the same goal: self-nurturing, thereby optimizing their capacity to nurture others.”
Filling the Well / Sara Miriam Gross
“I decided that I would use this flu to become a more compassionate, nurturing person. That would be this flu’s gift to me.”
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Is Homeschooling ‘Kosher’? / Rabbi Yosef Resnick
“Do we, as Jewish parents, have a personal obligation to educate our own children?”
My To-Do List Meets My Two-Year-Old / Krana Nebenzahl
“There is nothing more frustrating, or more humbling, than a two-year-old with an agenda.”
My Creative Geniuses / Peshie Needleman
“Lovely princess slowly and regally turns towards her bourgeois mother and says, with all the royalness she can muster, ‘A princess doesn’t wear PJs.’”
Shmueli and the Lost Kugel / Chana Roseman
Health Focus: Cooking Up Trouble with Teflon
Also: Letters, Real Quotes from Real Kids, media reviews, Roundup