Yes, I’m aware that Elmo is just a swath of red fur that can’t talk or give a proper interview. The endless hours spent watching Sesame Street’s cutest monster haven’t deluded me that much (yet). But the man who created Elmo and gives him life—making millions of children giddy in the process—can talk. His […]

Last week, my wife gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, our second.
Before the baby’s arrival, my wife and I had tried to prepare our two-year-old son, Jack, for the new addition. “Where’s your baby brother?” we would ask, and he would dutifully point to mom’s ever-expanding belly.
One unfortunate downside to this lesson was whenever […]

Is two years old too young to learn about Jewish guilt?
Not in my house.
It started as kind of a joke. It seems that the instant Jack blew out the candles on his second birthday cake, he acquired the “terrible” trait that accompanies the age, as if it were among the new toys wrapped in the […]