Having taken three children on several road trips in Israel, and in this country, I can say with scientific accuracy that one of my thee children is going to vomit on the car ride. Always the same one, my 6.5 year old middle child. No, it doesn’t matter if he is sitting in the middle seat or the window seat, nor does fresh air appear to help him enough to stop the vomiting. I don’t think he would vomit if he had no screens to watch, but repeated attempts to get him to relinqu

Our family recently came back from a 5 month sabbatical in Israel, just over a month ago. Even though I have spent nearly my entire life in the United States, the culture shock upon the return trip has been significant. Among the most significant parts of the shock is the extent to which parenting attitudes differ between Israeli culture and American culture. Of note, Israeli families tend to be larger, which means that most of the time there are more children than adults sup