A new carnival called Parents Helping Parents is being hosted at Modern Parent.
Don't have time for the soccer game or to explain the facts of life? Help is available. "You worry about yourselves, we'll worry about your kids."Kidsourcing. (Hebrew)
Hat tip: Gila
Update: This morning, when you click on the video a message appears:
Parenting Services for Rent? Not in our school. Kidsourcing is a fictitious company. You will soon be directed to another site.I gather that the whole thing is a clever ad campaign for Adler parenting classes, sponsored by Clalit Health Fund (Histadrut). I was wondering, because it seemed too slick to have been produced by amateurs. After viewing the ad you can go back and watch the spoof.
Modesty Blasé laments, "For the first time in Jewish history, mothers are encouraging their daughters to underachieve. They shouldn't be too pretty, too smart or too competent for fear of scaring the boys away." Smart and competent I can believe. But since when has beauty ever been a problem for Jewish girls? If she means that tzniut dress codes detract from women's beauty, that's nothing new. Read her post and tell us what you think.
How to Become a Patient Parent. Hat tip: Esther's sidebar
