15 Delicious Passover Recipes For Tots

by Rebecca Gruber for Popsugar
 
Passover may be all about doing without, but convincing little ones to forgo their favorite standby meals won't fly in most households. After Friday's first seder, removing leavened bread from a tot's diet doesn't have to be a recipe for disaster. We've rounded up some kid-friendly recipes that remove the holiday's forbidden ingredients but will still bring kids to the table at mealtime.

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Passover Seder for Young Children (4-5 years)

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Passover is the perfect holiday to explore with 4-and 5-year-olds. They are busy pursuing and absorbing new experiences. They have developed a longer attention span and greater language skills. They are curious and eager to take on increasingly complex intellectual challenges. They are very social and love practicing roles and routines. The seder with its story telling, number significance, role playing and repetition is right up their alley. Enjoy together the interactive, interpersonal experience of retelling our story.

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Interactive Ideas For A Passover Seder

From MatanKids

Interactive Ideas For A Passover Seder

1. Before the Seder, put a small piece of paper under each child’s plate. The papers will say one of four things: Question, Song, Story, Idea. At any point during the Seder, each guest will turn in their piece of paper and offer a question, song, story or idea. Think about which word will be under the children’s plate. If you know that Passover songs are their strength, be sure to give them “Song”; if they are great at asking questions, give them “Question”; and so on.

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Shaboom!

Coming April 6th, from the folks who bring you G-dcast, is a new  animated series for Jewish kids and the people who love them.  Learn about fixing the world with two magical “sparks” named Gabi and Rafael who live in a playhouse in the clouds and help out a regular family that makes a lot of (as your grandma might have said) meshuga mistakes.

Each 10 minute episode focuses on an everyday value like gratitude, saying I’m sorry, or helping others, plus teaches Hebrew vocabulary words with silly songs and goofy chants.

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Dear Helicopter Moms, You’re Ruining It For Everyone Else

by Elizabeth Broadbent for Playground Professionals

She’s standing there under my 3-year-old, arms aloft like she’s at church waiting for God to drop a truth bomb on her. Baby Bear monkey-shimmies 6-foot metal ladder.

“Do you know whose he is?” she asks me, almost breathless with terror.

“He’s mine,” I say. “And he’s been climbing that ladder since he was 2.”

She gawks at me. And then I know I’m doomed: She’s a hoverer. And unless I hover over my kids, she’ll do it for me, not-so-silently judging me all the time. Thanks for ruining my mama playdate, lady.

Because there are two kinds of parents at the park.

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I Don’t Let My Daughter Near Any Screens. This is Why

B.J. Epstein for Kveller

We don’t own a TV. There, I said it.

Shocked? Most people are when they find out. My students, who are in a university literature department, often talk about TV shows and movies in class, and when they hear that I haven’t seen any of the things they’re talking about, their mouths fall open. “But what do you do with your time?” they ask (yes, even literature students ask me what I do if I don’t watch TV).

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Day camp drama: Why can’t I find a Jewish program for my kids?

By Lisa Keys for JTA
I live in New York, one of the most Jewish cities in the world, and yet I reside in a pocket that has few options for Jewish life.

I love my western Queens neighborhood, where my husband and I have lived for more than a decade. The community is great — it’s the kind of place where we babysit each other’s kids — and it’s an easy commute to Manhattan.

But one thing I’ve despaired: the limited Jewish infrastructure. And never do I feel the pain of this more acutely than this time of year, when summer plans are being made. It’s my dream to send my kids, ages 5 and 8, to a Jewish summer camp. But this always seemed impossible, due to a combination of high cost and inconvenience.

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