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TLT Sandwiches: The Quick Way to Make Tofu Delicious
TLT sandwiches—or tofu, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches—are delicious, easy to make, kid-friendly, vegan, kosher, and even somewhat healthy if you discount the fact that the tofu for this dish is...
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Kid-Friendly Linguine With No-Cook Pasta Sauce
It’s summer and you know you should do some kind of activity with the kids. But it’s HOT. Sounds like the perfect time to teach the kids how to whip up some kid-friendly linguini with no-cook pasta...
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EDU Review 7/17/2014
EDU Review The latest trends in education and parenting July 17, 2014 Summertime is a time to dream about different places, cultures, things to do and be. It’s a time to shake off...
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Food for Thought
Why do we eat the foods we do? And why are some foods elevated to the status of “comfort food?” Have you ever wondered why some of your parent’s and grandparents customs surrounding food live on? In...
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When Are Children Ready to Learn About Evil?
When are children ready to learn about evil? Are the concepts of good and evil something that should be actively taught or do children passively absorb these cultural norms from their environment?...
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Joan Rivers: A Role Model Like No Other
If you haven’t heard the news, Joan Rivers, a ferocious comedienne, an extraordinary professional, a compassionate, outspoken role model, and the funniest woman I’ve ever seen died after suffering...
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4 Favorite Tips for Teaching Children to Be Good Neighbors
Three summers ago, we moved. Our new across the street neighbor came by and said, “If there’s anything at all you need—anything—please ask.” I could see her sincerity on her face and hear it in her...
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Microwave Baked Apples: The Autumn Comfort food
Another school day has ended and coming home, there’s a chill in the air. The ground is littered with leaves that crunch underfoot and there’s this feeling of something coming to an end. That’s...
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Poet, Parent, Writer: A Profile of Varda Meyers Epstein
Ursula K. Le Guin, an award-winning novelist and self-professed introvert once wrote, “Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise...
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Talking to Kids About Ebola
Talking to kids about Ebola: does it seem counterintuitive? Do you worry that rather than calming their fears, talking about the disease will only frighten them more? Is it difficult for you to talk...
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Kapla: Best. Toy. Ever.
Kapla is without a doubt, the best toy I’ve ever purchased for my children (note that this is an unsolicited endorsement). I first saw Kapla when my youngest son, then two, joined a small playgroup in...
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Hot Salsa: Hot Holiday Salsa, That Is
Hot salsa on your holiday table? Why not? It goes great on potato latkes, is red and green, and offers colorful fresh low-calorie flavor to perk up just about any food you can name. No-cook salsa is...
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How Merchandising Makes Use of Bullying and Why It Shouldn’t Be Tolerated
Merchandising makes use of bullying to sell things. The practice is not new. Advertisers and retailers probably took their cue from the media. Just a short half-hour on one of the many reality-based...
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A Friend’s Betrayal: When Your Child Has Been Hurt
A friend’s betrayal is bad enough when it happens to you, but when it happens to your child, it’s unbearable. You’d do anything to take the pain away but you know that you can’t. No one can do that...
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Politics and Kids: Stirring Your Child’s Inner Political Animal
Politics and kids would not seem to be a thing. For one thing, kids aren’t old enough to vote, which would tend to make politics less compelling as a topic of interest. For another thing, the idea of...
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Are You Afraid to talk to Your Child About His Disability?
You’ve always wanted to talk to your child about his disability, but then shied away from doing so, just as the words were forming on your lips. On the one hand, you think your child should know that...
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Getting Kids to Think About the Future? Fuhgeddaboudit
Getting kids to think about the future is probably an impossible dream. Kids can’t think about next week, let alone how getting a poor grade in algebra is going to impact their adult lives going...
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Three Ways to Get Kids to Make Healthier Food Choices
“Healthier food choices” is a phrase we mostly associate with adults. Because seriously—what child is going to choose raw broccoli florets over gummy worms? And yet, as parents, we’ve all met the...
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Comfort Food Can Help Protect Children from Mental and Physical Health Risks
Comfort food is that go-to food you crave when nothing is going right. Bad day at the office? Nothing a giant bowl full of mac and cheese can’t cure. Or perhaps a bowl of matzoh ball soup. The...
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