Rebecca Bodenheimer

After a spring plagued with shoddy distance learning, many parents with financial resources are reconsidering their commitment to public education.
Marissa Korbel’s 6-year-old daughter was supposed to be starting first grade at her local public school this fall. Instead, Korbel, a Portland-based attorney, decided to keep her daughter in the Montessori school (which runs from preschool through third grade) because it has the resources and space to open safely.

(CNN)"Are your kids going to camp?" This is the big question circulating in my moms' group texts and online parenting networks this summer. It's an incredibly fraught issue that -- along with the concerns about health risks -- brings with it fears of judgment and disapproval from fellow parents (in most families, that means mo...

Because tuition is the backbone of these businesses, some experts predict that one-third to one-half of all licensed providers will never reopen.
Laura Minnock has been the owner and director of Milestones Childcare Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for 20 years. Before she took the reins, it was owned by her sister-in-law—meaning, the business has been in the family for almost three decades.
“Childcare is not a high-margin business to begin with,” said Minnock. It’s highly dependent on the ...

“I felt a change in myself. Not that I got possessed or left my body — on the contrary, I felt these moments of bliss, union with the participants, a wash of positive energy. I was very present in the moment.”
I wrote these notes on September 21, 2006, after attending an Afro-Cuban religious ceremony dedicated to honoring one’s ancestors.

The FX series “Better Things,” created by Pamela Adlon and Louis C.K. (though Adlon cut ties after he admitted to multiple allegations of sexual misconduct) is the best show about motherhood on television. While the series’ fourth season recently concluded, all episodes are available to stream on Hulu — and watching them all is so worth your time. The fourth season builds upon the incredible second and third seasons by continuing to chronicle the highs and lows of Adlon’s character, Sam Fox, ...

(CNN)What has struck me and filled me with dread while watching the FX/Hulu show "Mrs. America" is realizing how little progress we've made since the 1970s in achieving gender equality. The show, starring Cate Blanchett as Phyllis Schlafly, the influential conservative activist and founder of the Eagle Forum, chronicles the fi...

On February 12, 1990, rapper MC Hammer released his third album, Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt Em. Thanks to the mega-hit “U Can’t Touch This,” it would go on to spend 21 nonconsecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard charts—still the only rap album to achieve this feat—and remains one of the top five best-selling rap albums in history. It was also the first time a rap album was nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammys.
The following month, on March 20, rap group Digital Underground relea...

My grandmother lived to be 101. In her last few years, she developed very close relationships with her professional in-home caregivers to such an extent that I believe these women became her most important confidantes. I noticed the relationships she formed with them were less complicated than those she had with her daughters — with her caregivers, there weren’t decades of emotional baggage getting in the way of providing her with care. Two of my grandmothers’ caregivers became very close wit...

Our editors independently research, test, and recommend the best products; you can learn more about our review process here. We may receive commissions on purchases made from our chosen links.
Our Top Picks
Best Overall: Khan Academy
"Khan Academy’s YouTube videos cover most subjects at a range of levels: math, science and engineering, arts, and humanities."
Best for Young Children: PBS KIDS Games
"Kids will love the games built around their favorite PBS characters and shows, like Daniel Tige...

Passover, one of the most important holidays in the Jewish calendar, is here. The Passover seder commemorates the Jews’ exodus from slavery in Egypt, and every item on the seder plate is symbolic. Maror, or “bitter herbs,” recalls the bitterness and suffering under slavery, and in the US, this is most commonly symbolized by horseradish.

Rebecca Bodenheimer is a freelance writer and cultural critic. The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. View more opinion articles on CNN.
(CNN)Congress has just passed a historic $2 trillion stimulus package that was signed into law by President Donald Trump on Friday afternoon. Beyond giving most Americans direct assistance in the form of a one-time check, it extends unemployment benefits to workers who don't traditionally have access because they don't have an...

The notion of a Bechdel-style test by which to measure such stories was inspired by Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black” which was revolutionary in its depiction of women’s bodies. The women at Litchfield prison were an accurate reflection of real-world body diversity. There were Cindy, Big Boo, DeMarco, CO Ginger and plenty of other “” characters like Daya, Taystee, Red and Suzanne. Crucially, the women never talked about dieting or obsessed about their weight. To pass the test proposed here, TV...

(CNN)Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has found himself in hot water after a "60 Minutes" interview with Anderson Cooper Sunday in which he praised some of the actions of Fidel Castro following the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Twitter lit up, with most fellow politicians—both Democrat and Republican—condemning Sanders for "si...

The Caribbean is known for its fertile musical production, born of the encounters between diverse cultures—Indigenous, European, and African—that resulted from the violent Spanish, British, Dutch, and French colonizations of the Americas. That said, French Caribbean popular music is often eclipsed by the enormous popularity and influence of Anglophone Caribbean genres, like Jamaican reggae and dancehall, as well as the widespread impact of Cuban popular music.

Senior care involves a complicated set of relationships between several parties: the senior receiving care, the client or family member who’s often organizing and/or paying for the care and one or more senior care providers. Communication among these parties is the key to ensuring seniors receive the physical and emotional support they need when dealing with a loss of independence.