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Parenting Day-to-Day

A child holding hands with two adults, walking through fallen leaves in autumn.

Being a parent provides endless opportunities for gratitude. We are privileged to witness life unfolding. We have opportunities to see the extraordinary in the ordinary each and every day. Even when it is messy, tedious, or frustrating, parenting has the power to connect us with something larger than ourselves.

Latest Rituals

Ritual & Prayers for Breastfeeding Mothers

This ritual guides you through the moment you choose to stop breastfeeding, packing up your breast pump and for your new relationship with your baby/child.
  • by Adva Chattler
babies, breastfeeding, motherhood, mothers, weaning
Close-up of an adult hand gently holding a babys hand, both resting on a soft, fluffy surface. Black and white.

Hazan et HaOlam: A Ritual for Starting Solids

This ritual frames starting solid foods as a time honor the sacredness of nourishment.
  • by Naama
babies, blessings, food, gratitude, parenting
A smiling baby in a high chair being fed with a spoon by an adult.

Tefilat HaDerekh: Driving You to Your Wedding. Coming Home Without You.

A beautiful wedding day prayer from parent to child.
  • by Robert Lichtman
parenting, weddings
a bride steps out of a car

A Prayer for Going Back to School

A blessing to send off your kiddos with love as they return to school.
  • by Rabbi Margaret Frisch Klein
back to school, children, education
colored pencils and shavings on a piece of papaer

How You Will Fledge

“I, my child, / will never tire / of bringing you / morning worm…”
  • by Jessica Kirzane
parenting
a birds nest

The Shofar Breaks

  • by Shoshanah Tornberg
intention, shofar
person with long hair facing away with black and rainbow kippah blowing shofar

A Placenta-Planting Ritual

A complete ritual for a family to bury the new child’s placenta under a plant in the garden.
  • by Lizzie Leykin
childbirth, community, garden, tree planting
People handling a potted plant with small succulents and gardening tools nearby.

Sukkah, 2022, Incomplete

“Every day we exist inside unfinished business.”
  • by Tree Smith Benedikt
children, forgiveness, joy, sukkah
woman in profile holding tree branch

Like the Arrow that Flies by Day (Psalm 91:5):  A Prayer for Calm Coherence in the Midst of the Chaos of Daily Life

“May memory be a protective seawall / to re-call me: / it’s all about the breath.”
  • by Janet Madden
breath, meditation, psalm
calm woman with eyes closed

A Prayer for a Mass Shooting, Before You Know What is Going On

“When the time comes, grant us wisdom, fortitude and stamina.”
  • by Esther Teverovsky, MD
mass shooting
a woman in a ponytail silhouetted against a white wall
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