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Musings on parenting, marriage, and relationships from Bethany Mandel & Kara Kennedy.
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Four Homeschool Curriculums I’m Loving This Year (opens the original)
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This year marks our eighth year of homeschooling. I have now been homeschooling longer than I was in the “working” world.We’ve cycled through many curriculum companies and options over the years, with some more successful than others. We straight-up abandoned a few (the Alveary chief among them), but with many others, we simply exhausted their offerings after loving everything we did with them for years (Beautiful Feet Books and A Gentle Feast).The Mom Wars is a reader-suppor
A Night on the Beach Among the Wild Horses (opens the original)
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My younger daughter loves horses. She also loves her siblings.This summer, those two facts collided when her three oldest siblings left for sleepaway camp, temporarily promoting her to oldest child. She is not, temperamentally, an oldest child. She thrives under the wing of her older brothers and sister, happily tagging along behind them, and I knew their absence would leave an enormous hole in her summer.So six months ago, I began planning a consolation prize.We would go to Assateague Island, t
The Most Liberating Parenting Advice I Can Give: Stop Caring What Strangers Think (opens the original)
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The Most Liberating Parenting Advice I Can Give: Stop Caring What Strangers ThinkThe other day, I came across a tweet that perfectly captured one of the stranger realities of being a mother in 2026. It was criticizing mothers who bring their six-week-old babies to the gym daycare, the implication being that if you truly loved your newborn, you would never voluntarily leave them with someone else simply so you could exercise.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.c
The Mom Wars Podcast: The OU's Adina Shmidman (opens the original)
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This week, Bethany sat down with Adina Shmidman, the Director of the Orthodox Union’s Women’s Initiative and the queen of a daily learning program called “Nach Yomi,” to discuss daily Bible study and how moms and all women can delve into text learning, Jewish or not! Bethany has been participating in one of the OU’s programs called Nach Yomi, and you ca… Read more
The Parenting Divide No One Talks About (opens the original)
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Spend enough time online and you’ll notice a political pattern that has very little to do with tax policy or elections. Conservatives and progressives increasingly speak entirely different emotional languages.Conservatives tend to tell stories rooted in gratitude. Progressives tend to tell stories rooted in grievance. You see it everywhere. One side instinctively counts blessings, while the other catalogs complaints. One side looks first for reasons to be thankful, while the other looks first fo
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