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Michael Bahler's work has appeared in Modern Love (2015 & 2008),Motherlode,Mom.me,Parent Co.,Glimmer Train,Nerve,Best of the Web (Dzanc Books),3:AM Magazine,Modern Loss,Swink,The Brooklyn Rail,悬松Eclectica,Parting Gifts and the New Jersey Review of Literature.他住在新泽西州。

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5 Ways to Keep a Dead Jewish Grandmother Alive

米迦勒巴勒

Senior woman baking pies in her home kitchen.Mixing ingredients.

可以说，成为犹太人最好的事情是有一个犹太祖母，so it makes me very sad that my kids are never going to know my mother,当我们最大的孩子6周大的时候就死了，or my… wife's mother,who passed before we got married.We want to give our young kids a sense of who their grandmothers were,but we also don't want to burden them with our sadness or freak them out about death (and have them worry we are about to die).试图达到适当的平衡，这里是…>多读

Why I Wish We Had a Hanukkah Bush

米迦勒巴勒

每年这个时候，I find myself being much more solicitous with my two boys,aged 7 and 5.How are you feeling,I ask when I oversee them brushing their teeth before school.Has anything been… bothering you,I inquire when we're sitting on the couch playing Uno after dinner.你有什么想谈的吗？I say,when I put them to bed.Like Christmas?I so hated being Jewish as a kid that I started wearing a cross around my neck in high school and telling people…>多读

Dads

That Time I Used My Kid as an Excuse for My Own Fear

米迦勒巴勒

I recently accompanied my 4-year-old,Mannyto a birthday party at a local museum.To my horror,所有的孩子都挤进电梯，把他们带到三楼的恐龙展览馆。我是… so deathly afraid of elevators that I never would have gone to the party if I had known I was going to have to ride in one.我抓起曼尼的手，急匆匆地走到博物馆的工作人员那里，他是聚会的主持人。“曼尼害怕电梯，”我对站在电梯旁的年轻女人撒了个谎。>多读

Dads

I'm That Dad Who Lets His Kid Do Whatever He Wants

米迦勒巴勒

About four years ago,Motherlode ran my essay "In Defense of the Doormat Dad," in which I championed my permissive free-range parenting style.I allowed my then-2-year-old son,Benjamin,设置他的… own bedtime,小时的洗澡,and basically rule the roost.他是个了不起的孩子，我很乐意退后一步，让他在没有太多父权干涉的情况下找到自己的道路。我知道我的论文是挑衅,but still bristled at the comments section predicting Benjamin would end up a brat,or worse,…>多读

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That Time My Wife Breastfed Me

米迦勒巴勒

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When you're around something all the time,like I was around breastfeeding,想试一试是很自然的。Over the past six years,I watched my wife dutifully nurse our three kids,… including our newborn.I saw how they suctioned onto her nipple with open maws and happily suckled,and I was intrigued.另外，我们没有更多的孩子。So if I wanted a turn,time was of the essence.My wife didn't say yes right away,and she threw up all these defenses like how my…>多读

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Why I'm Glad We ‘Tried for a Girl'

米迦勒巴勒

When you have two boys and want a girl,你必须真的想要另一个孩子再次怀孕，因为很有可能你会一个接一个的生孩子，而且… 然后输掉总统选举（见罗姆尼）。Unless you're going to rig the sex selection process with invasive IVF,you have to really embrace the idea of a new baby with a gender-neutral,Title IX,共同浴室精神。Jen and I had broken this sacred commandment;我们又怀了第三个孩子，但是…>多读

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