I was recently quoted in a Chicago Tribune article about parents who brag too much (I promise I will try not to fall into this category myself!). Here’s what I had to say: “The quality of the honor your kid is receiving should also enter into your calculations, according to sociologist Hilary Levey Friedman, author [...]
Lifetime’s Season 2 of Dance Moms continues to get sillier and sillier as the contrivances spin out faster than a terrible fouetté turn. What can you say when Kendall leaves Abby’s studio and ends up at Candy Apples in Ohio besides, “Yeah, right! Producer interference!” in Episode 8, “The Runaway Mom?” And Abby’s decision to [...]
A very personal essay on why I have opted out of tenure-track academia was just published by my graduate school alma mater’s alumni magazine, PAW (Princeton Alumni Weekly). You can read it in full HERE. It goes without saying that if I was in a tenure-track job at this moment, I wouldn’t have this Little [...]
Last week, in between two month vaccines (I may have cried more than he did!) and StrollFit classes to try to lose that baby weight, I was busy talking about a few different strands of my research. 1) I appeared on NECN’s The Morning Show to talk about a new, disturbing trend: T(w)een girls posting [...]
This article originally appeared on The Huffington Post/Stylelist Children often join the family business, and these days kids end up following in their parents’ footsteps in variety of fields. Mitt Romney followed his father into politics. Ivanka and Don Jr. joined the Trump family business, appearing in the latest incarnation of Celebrity Apprentice. Superbowl MVP [...]
I love the Olympics. I love watching all the events. I love watching the “fluff” (background pieces/sob stories about the athletes). And I love seeing amazing athletes who participate in sports that don’t often get a lot of attention (like synchronized swimming and fencing, for example). And then there’s shooting. Over the weekend six shooters [...]
Watching Dance Moms and Toddlers & Tiaras is always interesting for me– both because the shows are often entertaining (if only in a horrifying way, like the recent T&T episode that featured Heaven, a modern day Violet Beauregarde with her incessant gum chewing, and Honey Boo Boo child and her TLC crossover extreme couponing momma [...]
This group of outstanding teenagers might make you feel bad about yourself! They all have found ways to achieve in distinctive and varied ways– from sports to extreme activities to academics– at such a young age. Here are some impressive feats they accomplished in the past month or so (Note: I think it’s important sometimes [...]
As he has been brought into the covenant, so may he enter into Torah, huppah, and ma’asim tovim. I’ve been remiss in my blogging lately as I spent some extra time bonding with Little Man, taking him on his first important outings (i.e. the bookstore, the New England Aquarium, the jewelry store…) and throwing him [...]
A feature story I wrote on afterschool math enrichment centers appeared in today’s The Boston Globe Magazine. You can read it online (and see additional links below) by clicking here! I researched and wrote this in the last month or so of my pregnancy, so joke that now I know which math programs my son [...]
