Winter 2014

Table of Contents ESSAY Beneath the Surface What happens to the children when both parents are ill? By Francesca Kaplan Grossman   ESSAY I See London, I See France Shielding children from the darker side of Vegas By Natalia Cortes-Chaffin   ESSAY Accompanied Mothering without a mother By K -

Follow Me: A Mother’s Day in the Israeli Army

By Judy Labensohn When my daughter Yael was seventeen, I checked out her army, just as I had checked out nursery schools, junior highs, and high schools. Like all secular Jewish Israeli girls, she would be drafted into the Israel Defense Forces at eighteen for twenty-two months. To check out conditi -

Brain, Child Winter 2013/2014 Issue

Subscribe today and receive our winter issue packed with essays, a short story, an in-depth feature, book reviews and more. Topics range from raising third culture kids, to raising three girls in sin city, to mothering without a mother. Don’t miss out on this beautifully illustrated issue with -