I Never Thought I’d Let My Son Watch TV–Until Now

By Debby Levine for Raising Kvell

I love television. I always have. I love to talk about TV with friends, I love to rewatch shows I haven’t seen in years, and now with services like Hulu and Netflix, I love catching up on shows I missed the first time around. I don’t usually have much time for TV, but while recovering from a C-section this past February, I watched almost the whole 10-year run of “How I Met Your Mother” while caring for my newborn. Hundreds of episodes, probably.

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I Tell My Daughter Looks Don’t Matter But I Know They Do

By Lela Casey for Raising Kvell

My daughter sat on the floor watching me get dressed. She was wearing her brother’s ripped t-shirt and her hair was bunched into a knotty knob on her head.

“That’s a pretty dress, Mama.”

Her eyes shone when she looked at me, tiny mirrors that reflected my face back to me in rainbow colors.

I shimmied out of the dress and tossed it on the growing heap of not-quite-right outfits.

“Thanks, honey. But pretty clothes aren’t what’s important, right?”

“Mmm hmmmm.”

“What is important, baby?”


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Akhlah

With school already started in some communities and about to start in others, can Hebrew school be far behind?

Get a jump on refreshing your child's Hebrew and Jewish studies with this fun website, Akhlah.com.

There are all sorts of fun things such as Hebrew Word of the Day; Jewish Quiz of the Day, Jewish Hero of the Week, and much, much more.

There's information on the torah portions, holidays, history, Israel, letters and puzzles. All kinds of fun things to do with your child. You'll learn a lot too.

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A Kind Stranger Helped My Kids During a Tel Aviv Air Raid

By Dona Inselberg for Raising Kvell

My Israeli husband and I, along with our kids, made aliyah two months ago. Our new neighborhood, a sleepy suburb of Tel Aviv, has been disrupted several times a day by the sound of a long piercing siren. Our 3-year-old twins, born and raised in New York, refer to the sirens as “a big fire truck,” but this time was different.

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When Your Worst Parenting Fear Comes True

By Carla Naumburg for Raising Kvell

Since the moment I found out I was pregnant for the first time, I have been terrified of stairs. My anxiety about falling down a flight of stairs peaked after my first daughter was born, and looking back, I see now that it was just one symptom of the post-partum anxiety I didn’t realize I was suffering at the time.

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What’s It Like at “No Body Talk” Camp?

By Rachel Silberstein for Raising Kvell

“NO BODY TALK!”

This is the refrain commonly heard at Eden Village, a Jewish organic farming camp, featured in the New York Times, where boys and girls can talk about anything under the sun except their bodies.


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What Oh What Will My Parenting Style Be?

By Courtney Naliboff for Raising Kvell

Now that I’ve been a parent for a month, I’m hoping to see evidence of an emerging parenting style. Am I an Attachment Parent? Or am I Detached? What are my philosophies on where, when, and how the baby should sleep? Or eat? To wear or not to wear the baby?



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