DECEMBER 16 • 2021 | 23

SHE REALIZED CHILDREN IN
SHE REALIZED CHILDREN IN
THE MIDDLE OF A TANTRUM
THE MIDDLE OF A TANTRUM
WEREN’T SO MUCH
WEREN’T SO MUCH GIVING
GIVING

HER A HARD TIME, THEY WERE
HER A HARD TIME, THEY WERE

HAVING
HAVING A HARD TIME.
A HARD TIME.

That doesn’t mean there
shouldn’t be consequences,
she says. But consequences
should be decided logically
and be directly related to
the behavior — for example,
taking away a toy that is used
as a weapon or having a child
use his own money to replace
something broken in anger or
ruined by carelessness.
Heather Bershas of West
Bloomfield, a mother of
three who teaches early
childhood and fifth grade
at Temple Israel, says she
loves Bagdade’s honest and
straightforward writing style.
She says she had a “lightbulb
moment” when Bagdade
discussed right-sizing her
expectations of her 2-year-old
son. “I just thought, ‘Huh,

that makes so much sense!’”
Many of the anecdotes in
the book are about Bagdade’s
own children, Ruby, Gabi and
Avi. She shared everything in
the book with them and with
her husband, Jeff, a traffic
and safety planning engineer,
before publishing.
“Every single story and
anecdote in the book was
‘approved’ by each child,” she
said. “That is super-important
to me. They love being my
cover models!”
The book is available at
Book Beat in Oak Park,
Toyology in West Bloomfield,
directly from the publisher
at https://msipress.com or
online from Barnes and
Noble or Amazon, which also
has a Kindle edition.

Franki Bagdade

Supported through the generosity of The Jewish Fund and the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Family Foundation.




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