For years, birthday parties in our house consisted of kosher turkey hot dogs (no dairy in those!)  sometimes served on rice-flour rolls, followed up by barley flour cake and tofu ice cream. Not exactly the kind of menu your friends are hungry for. But we decided a long time ago that everyone once in a […]

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Parenting is more often based on principles than hard and fast rules. But in our household there was one absolute: Don’t even think about feeling sorry for yourself. It’s not an easy rule to enforce. A child with an illness or serious allergies is a pity-magnet. He can’t eat ice cream like all the other […]

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What is more frightening than sending a child with severe food allergies out to trick or treat on Halloween? Raising a child who has never experienced that fun. It’s true, a child with severe allergies likely can’t eat much any of the stuff that’s being handed out in the neighborhood. And if you child is […]

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Sometimes, I think we did a little too good of a job raising our daughter. Like when we’re in a restaurant we’ve never patronized before, and she orders off the menu. Or when she calls to say she is traveling to West Africa, and don’t worry, she’ll be fine. I worry anyway. It’s a habit. […]

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