Summer Break Survival: The Honest Parent's Guide to Staying Sane Day 4 of summer break: I just caught myself hiding in the pantry eating almond flour crackers while my kid asked "what can we do now?" for the 47th time today. If this sounds familiar, welcome to the club. Remember back in May when you were Pinterest-ready with that color-coded summer bucket list? When you genuinely believed you'd be the parent who seamlessly transitioned from structured school days to magical summer memories? Yeah, me too. Here's my honest reality:  It's 10 AM and my preschooler has already asked for screen time six times, dumped an entire bag of cereal on the kitchen floor "to feed the dogs," and informed me that summer is "boring" despite having every toy known to humanity scattered across our living room. If you're reading this while desperately googling "when does school start again," you're not alone. Let's talk survival strategie...

When Our Community Breaks: Processing Tragedy as Parents I'm writing this with tears in my eyes and a heavy heart that I know so many of you share right now. On Friday afternoon, just three blocks from Hamilton Park in Jersey City, a 6yr old boy was riding his bicycle near his home when he was struck and killed by a UPS truck. He was with his father. He was doing what kids do—riding his bike, probably excited about the weekend ahead. And now he's gone. If you're a parent reading this, I know you felt that same punch to the gut when you heard the news. That instant, nauseating recognition that it could have been your child. That it could have been you standing there, watching your world shatter in an instant. The Fragility of Everything As parents, we spend so much time thinking about the big scary things like stranger danger , serious illnesses, accidents that happen to other people. But this? This was a child riding his bike with his dad on a Friday afternoon. This was nor...