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So Many Gifts, So Many Tears – Surviving Holiday Shopping

November 7, 2016 by Celia Behar 2 Comments

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Every year, around the holidays, I get extremely emotional and cry at the drop of a hat. No, not because the holidays are a season of love and giving, but because holidays = holiday shopping and holiday shopping fills me with anxiety . . . and tears. Mind. Blown. A few weeks ago, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Parenting Tips, Reading Lifestyle Tagged With: Christmas for Jewish mom, Jewish mom at Christmas, mom buys holiday gifts, mom holiday shopping, mom’s holiday anxiety



Work-Life Balance: Fact or Fiction?

December 17, 2015 by Celia Behar Leave a Comment

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When I decided to have kids, continuing to work full-time too seemed like a no-brainer. All around me, women were having babies and heading back to work with breast pumps concealed as messenger bags, nursing pads secured in their bras, and nary a postpartum bump in the road. They seemed to have no … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Parent, Parenting Tips, Reading Lifestyle, Sleep & Self Care Tagged With: balancing work/family, work/family balance, work/family stress



Thanksgiving Food Rules

November 20, 2015 by Celia Behar 2 Comments

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Oh, Thanksgiving, how I love you. I love everything about you. What other holiday allows you to just sit around doing nothing but eating, drinking, and watching football with family and friends? There are no presents to buy or resolutions to be made, and no religion, too. (John Lennon would be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fun, Food & Games, Parenting Tips, Reading Lifestyle Tagged With: Mom’s Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving for moms, Thanksgiving Mom’s favorite holiday



Screen Time vs. “Me” Time

November 12, 2015 by Celia Behar Leave a Comment

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Here’s something I’ve realized about myself and parenting: Sometimes, I don’t wanna. Which, y’know, is an inconvenient feeling once you’re a parent, because you kinda lose the option. It's at those times a little voice in my head says I should plop the kids in front of a screen and let them "veg" … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Common Challenges, Learn to Read, New Parent, Parenting Tips, Reading Lifestyle, School Readiness, Sleep & Self Care, Social & Emotional Life Tagged With: kids and screens, limit screens, limiting screentime, screen time



Homework Help Me!

October 3, 2015 by Celia Behar 1 Comment

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This afternoon I sat with my preschooler, helping with her homework. I handed her crayons so she could color in (or, rather, around) some bubble letters and guided her hand over the path the bumble bee took home. It was very relaxing and enjoyable—the way I imagined helping with homework would be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Common Challenges, Learn to Read, Parenting Tips Tagged With: homework battles, homework help, homework issues, Hooked on Phonics



It’s Not MY Party So WHY Am I Crying?

September 28, 2015 by Celia Behar Leave a Comment

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As a parent, there are many things you expect to be stressful. The sleepless nights, the crying, the tantrums, the costs… I never imagined my kids’s birthday parties would be one of them. Who knew the planning, shopping, spending, hosting and dealing with the aftermath of a child’s birthday party … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Parent Tagged With: kids birthday parties, kids’s parties, mom party planning, mom planning kid’s party



Am I Smarter Than a Third Grader?

September 25, 2015 by Celia Behar Leave a Comment

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Recently, I had the honor to work with my daughter on her science fair project. Wait, did I write honor? I meant, horror. All right, horror is too strong a word, but it was hard! The project was a diorama of an animal of her choice in its natural habitat. She could’ve picked something fun to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Parenting Tips, Reading Lifestyle Tagged With: homework help, homework humor, parents and homework



A Tale of Two Parents: What’s in a NO

September 19, 2015 by Celia Behar 3 Comments

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Once upon a time I had friends without kids. Then they had kids. Then we weren’t friends anymore. This is a true story of what happened when friends’ parenting styles collided. I was the first of my local friends to have kids, so when they had their own, I imagined our kids growing up together … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Parenting Tips, Reading Lifestyle, School Readiness, Social & Emotional Life Tagged With: disagree on parenting, discipline, friends disagree on parenting, parenting styles, saying No, spoiled brat, temper tantrums



Momopoly: Finding the Right Mommy Group

September 18, 2015 by Celia Behar 2 Comments

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The moment I gave birth, my confidence about who I was faltered; everything seemed scary and lonely. I didn’t have friends with kids and I needed some. I needed women who could assure me that someday nursing would get easier, my c-section scar would stop itching, and I would stop crying—because WOW … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Parent, Sleep & Self Care Tagged With: mom clique, mom group, mommy group, moms group



Top 7 Things NOT to Stress About This School Year

September 18, 2015 by Celia Behar 3 Comments

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A new school year has begun—and while there are some of us parents who want to sing “Celebration,” others among us know the new year brings new worries. So, this year I made a list of things parents should refuse to stress about. You’re welcome. To PTA or Not to PTA? By now, you’ve probably … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Learn to Read, Parenting Tips, Reading Lifestyle, Smart Strategies Tagged With: back to school anxiety, back to school stress, extracurriculars, homework, lunch, mom's back to school stress, progress reports, PTA



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