Dating Without Babysitters
Some people don’t believe in the tooth fairy–I don’t believe in babysitters. (And I don’t think there is anything wrong with people who do.) But I do believe that dating doesn’t have to stop once...
View ArticleFinding the best childcare…in the White House
I’m supposed to have a baby in two weeks, give or take the vagaries of a uterus that on previous occasions has summarily refused to discharge its occupants. Or maybe I’m misreading the situation –...
View ArticleTest Driving Parenthood
My boyfriend’s 3-year-old was in town this weekend. She stayed with her aunt, but we got in a fair amount of quality time over two days. This has been our strategy over the past year. I don’t spend...
View ArticleChildless Uncle Changes a Diaper
Earlier this year, I babysat my 9-month-old niece for an hour and a half, alone. Six months later, due in part to my stunning success in keeping her alive for 90 minutes in Manhattan, I got another...
View ArticleKveller’s New Partnership with Care.com
We know parents need a lot of support, both moral and physical. Besides the support of great friends (and Jewish parenting websites), many parents need the support of nannies and babysitters, and...
View ArticleTeach Me How to Splurge
As part of our month-long series dedicated to Women, Work & Money, Melissa Langsam Braunstein tells us about her struggles to splurge. Not too long ago, I had lunch with a college friend. When we...
View ArticleWe Don’t Live Anywhere Near Our Family
The night I realized that we had nobody to parent our children for a stretch of October, I cried. My husband had a major conference in Reno, and I had a 10-day festival to run. That left us with no …...
View ArticleThe Euphemisms We Use Instead of “Nanny”
Parenting is full of euphemisms. It all starts with the “baby bump,” then we get “nursing,” followed by “fussy” and “number two.” I’ve now started using my own parenting euphemism: Sometimes I say my...
View ArticleUncle Gets a Name
“Nope.” “Cheerios?” “Nope.” “Toast?” “Mope.” “Banana?” “Nana!” Banana it is! Previously, I wrote about babysitting my niece, Lila, at six months, and at 15 months. Now 20 months old, babysitting has...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Kate Middleton’s Pregnancy is So Not Jewish
All the parenting news you probably didn’t have time read this week. - The hoopla over the imminent birth of Kate Middleton and Prince William’s first child can be described as many things–exciting,...
View ArticleThe Case of the Purple Booty Shorts-Wearing Babysitter
I remember vividly the first day that “Dawn” came to our home. I found her through a babysitting service run by my alma mater, a prestigious women’s college. While many of the Brooklyn mommies I know...
View ArticleCan I Ask My Non-Jewish Babysitter to Do Shabbat?
Love our children though we may, inevitably my husband and I will eventually have commitments on Friday night. Luckily, we have the world’s most fantastic babysitter. Our children run to her when she...
View ArticleI’m a Grandmother, Not a Babysitter
I’m not a gooey, super-affectionate type. I’m into competence and capability and problem solving. I have had to teach myself to be less Dr. Spock (as my children used to refer to me) and more Mr....
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