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Should I Make My Daughter Clean Her Room?

Judy Batalion - New York Times Sunday Review
June 11, 2016

I recently received an email from my daughter Zelda’s preschool director titled “The Importance of Messy Play.” Children learn through process, she wrote.

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Learning to make room for a sibling

Judy Batalion - The Washington Post
January 8, 2016

I clutched my 3-year-old’s fingers as we prepared to walk on her school stage. When we waltzed on with 75 other Nutcracker dancers – Zelda in her miniscule Victorian slip, me with my 38-week pregnant belly – the auditorium burst into laughter. What was I doing here?

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The 13-Page Preschool Application

Judy Batalion - The New York Times
February 11, 2014

The first of a 12-part series on parenting.

Holding a 13-page form from the pile on our dining room table, I called out across our apartment, trying to get my husband’s attention.

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A Hoarder’s Daughter Yields to a (Little) Mess

Judy Batalion - The New York Times
January 4, 2013

I grew up in a Montreal duplex lined with old newspapers, videocassettes and a Tetris puzzle of cobwebbed credenzas. My mother, born on my grandparents’ flight from Nazi-occupied Poland, had formative years filled with loss.

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