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By Tzippora Price This type of parenting requires walking a tightrope. It requires perfect self-control and vigilance against the small slips of anger and impatience that accompany even the best parenting. It requires abundant giving with delayed returns...
By Tzippora Price I want to treat both my children equally, drawing from the same deep pool of bottomless devotion. But their differences make that impossible . . .
By Tzippora Price My son came home from kindergarten with scratches on his neck. When I called the teacher to ask what happened, she explained that he did it to himself . . .
By Tzippora Price I tell the psychiatrist that in our family we are all a bit weird. She seems taken aback by my openness. Perhaps she does not remember as clearly as I do what it means to be a child...
By Tzippora Price Terror seized Sharon's heart as she imagined the damage that the bar could do if it accidentally connected with another child's head, perhaps even the swinger's own head. Sharon quickly called out to the mothers surrounding her...
By Tzippora Price Sometimes it seems like my husband and I can talk for hours – about literature, politics, or Jewish ideas we are studying. Yet other times, the simplest exchange, like who should've bought milk or who is driving carpool, can set off an argument...
By Tzippora Price Over time, all spouses come to possess an intimate understanding of each other's imperfections. The question is how to prevent this familiarity from tarnishing the esteem and love a couple feels for each other...
By Tzippora Price On a night intended to commemorate our eleventh anniversary, and our treasured connection to each other, we celebrate instead the kindness of strangers, and the delicate and fragile strands of life's web...
By Tzippora Price My mother’s behavior was not unique. To be a child of a survivor means being hyper-vigilant, as though this act of vigilance could keep the wolves from their prey…
By Tzippora Price I find that my husband gives to me in a way that would probably satisfy his emotional needs, but leaves me feeling frustrated. How can I explain to him that my needs for intimacy and closeness are much stronger than his, and that I expect him to give to ...
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