The following is a Public Service Announcement on behalf of all children celebrating a birthday this week or next. My birthday is on Saturday. Christmas Eve. Growing up as a Catholic kid who went to Catholic school in a largely Catholic community, I sometimes felt like my birthday got lost in the Christmas shuffle. Now [...]
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This year Christmas falls smack dab in the middle of Hanukkah. This fact would have meant nothing to me as a child. Now it means a lot… — Please click here to read the rest of this post, in which I wonder about how to instill a sense of wonder in my interfaith kids during [...]
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I balance awkwardly on the edge of the tub, my daughter sitting on my knee, lunging for the yellow duck just out of her reach. I turn on the faucet and let the water run into the white plastic basin with its baby-shaped contours. When my oldest – now four – was a baby, we [...]
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