Mamaleh Knows Best ─ What Jewish Mothers Do to Raise Successful, Creative, Empathetic, Independent Children

We all know the stereotype of the Jewish mother: needy, hectoring, guilt-inducing. In As You Teach, You Learn, Tablet parenting columnist Marjorie Ingall argues that this stereotype is a misrepresentation of a specific parenting style; in reality, the best of Jewish parenting involves equal parts support, motivation, encouragement, adventure, concern, and brisket. In ten chapters, using personal anecdotes, historical texts, and research from today's leading parenting experts, Ingall lays out the commandments ("why mess with a classic?") --value education, fill your life with meaningful ritual, maintain discipline--for bringing up self-sufficient, ethical, and accomplished children. Ingall will make you think, she will make you laugh, and she will make you a better parent. You might not get a Nobel Prize-winner, like Albert Einstein's mom, but you might just get a good human being.

MARJORIE INGALL is a columnist for Tablet magazine, the National-Magazine-Award-winning journal of Jewish culture and ideas, and a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review. For seven years she wrote the "East Village Mamele" column for The Jewish Daily Forward. She has been a contributing editor at Glamour and a contributing writer at Self, and has written for Ms., Wired, Real Simple, Redbook, Parents, Parenting and the late lamented Sassy, where she was the senior writer and books editor. She is the author of The Field Guide to North American Males (Henry Holt, 1997), co-author ofHungry (Simon & Shuster, 2009) with the model Crystal Renn, and co-author ofSmart Sex (Simon & Schuster, 1998) with Jessica Vitkus. She is a former senior writer and producer at the Oxygen TV network, where she discovered her perkiness levels were not up to a job in daytime talk television.