Incisive, opinionated, unapologetic and brutally honest writer Bethany Mandel, co-author of Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation, is both fierce and loving when it comes to her four sons and two daughters. Also very, very funny. With stories about attending rock concerts at age seven, navigating an over-sharing, doctor-avoiding mom, and needing intervention to understand her "obnoxiously normal" husband, Bethany offers a raw, honest take on how her past has influenced her approach to parenting, how she decided to homeschool her tribe, how that has been a source of both freedom and stability, how keeping kosher and Shabbat sets boundaries her kids (almost) never question, how Full House and the Brady Bunch mimic real life, how delaying pain only magnifies it, the intersection of privilege and mental health, and why six kids is not nearly six times the work of one kid. Plus, the joys of a perfect dentist visit, a messy home, cereal for dinner, blowout birthday parties at the height of covid, affordable Jewish education, and her tactics for sibling rivalry and supermarket tantrums.
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