By Friday night, our family is kaput. After a week of tests, activities, meltdowns and more, all I can do is sit my kids on the sofa, turn on a movie, and wait for the sun to set. When it does, our Jewish Shabbat, our 25-hour day of rest, begins with the lighting of the candles, the prayers over the wine, bread, and the celebratory meal.
Gurian Institute
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Academy Award Winning Actor & Founder of Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media -
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Director of Performing Arts & Educational Specialist
Special Needs Playlist
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Psychiatrist, Harvard Professor & Medical Director for NAMI -
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Dr. Bob Brooks
Teaching Kids About Money
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Clinical Psychologist & Author
Tips For Dealing WIth Picky Eaters
Tips For Dealing With Picky Eaters
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Author, The No-Cry Solution book series
Our children bring us incredible joy. They can make us laugh in ways we haven’t laughed since we were kids, ourselves. They fill our hearts with a deep and uncompromising love. Yet, those very same children can bring out anger in us. They can get us lose our tempers and make us say things we don’t really mean. It’s never a time we look back on with pride – and we’re often regretful and ashamed after the fact. But getting angry at your children is a perfectly human and normal response to the complicated, often stress-filled job of parenting.
There are few things worse than feeling lonely. Loneliness comes, in my experience, from the most surprising places. You can have a stable of caring, supporting friends; a solid family, a husband, a sister, a cat, and you can still feel it. Because loneliness does not always come from the outside. Sometimes it crawls into your stomach like a tiny moth, and flies up against your organs with a fluttery, empty resilience.
That’s the loneliness I’ve felt, and it has come, primarily, from living with illness in a healthy world.
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