No matter what size, you can make shopping a pleasant experience for both your daughter and you. I was always the skinny girl. You know the one to whom the salesgirl always says, “Take it in the smallest size?” As an adult, the weight piled on and I struggled to find clothing but, I still…
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My Top 6 Amazon Fashion Finds
Between myself and three daughters, we need to do a lot of shopping. And ironically, we’ve done quite well on Amazon. These are our favorite six items this season (lots of great affordable shoe picks!). I shared my journey shopping with my teen daughters in this post. And while we do hit the stores often,…
Help Your Daughter Prepare for All Her Personal Needs
Keeping a cute little pouch of personal necessities in her backpack can spare a young lady from an embarrassing situation. There was a great basketball game at gym class today and everyone had a great time burning off some energy. But it’s time for class and nobody is feeling – or smelling – very fresh….
Sibling Rivalry: Will We Ever Figure Out a Solution?
The endless fighting is probably not about “who started it.” Sibling Rivalry began with the first siblings to exist; Cain and Abel, and while not all fighting ends in bloodshed it can still be emotionally and sometimes physically painful. Even though as parents we know it is “normal” for siblings to fight it doesn’t make…
Your Teenagers Will Love This Notebook Hack
All notebooks look the same from the top. This hack makes it easier to kids to find what they need, fast. When we started BCP, for one moment we thought, “What would happen if we run out of hacks and tips?” So far, that hasn’t happened. What has happened, rather, is that our kids have…
A Curated List of Wholesome Pre-1990 Secular Books
It’s hard to find kosher books among the secular books written today. But it wasn’t like that when we were kids. These are the books you might have read when you were young…and that your child might enjoy today. We’re usually very hesitant to share secular books on Between Carpools since everyone has different standards…
What to Watch & Where to Listen – Jewish Kids Edition
Need some help educating and entertaining the kids? Want to keep them in a space that upholds your values? There are plenty of Torah-true resources available right now! There’s so much content online right now, there’s no need to resort to YouTube to help you carry the load of entertaining and educating your children. So…
5 Tips to Keep Your Family Safe this Purim
Purim is a hectic day filled with happiness and fun―keep it joyful by using these 5 Purim safety tips 1. Have a Buddy System Our kids bounce from shul to shul, to friends’ houses, to the neighbors down the block. They bike to the carnival here, their teacher’s seudah there, and dance with their fundraising…
8 Homework Tips for the Harried Mom
Dread homework? The more you dread it, the harder it will be. Kids feel what we feel. Yet, there are ways to troubleshoot homework time, figure out where things are going right or wrong, and make it a smoother process. Make It a Routine Homework should be viewed like eating and sleeping. Don’t make a…
12 Book Series for Your Elementary Age Child
Book series are great because they keep a child busy for a long, long time. We’ve made recommendations and provided the information on each series listed below on kosherbooks.org to let you, the parent, make the choice. When we first set out to give our kids pre-checked, appropriate reading material, we focused on the most…
