GREAT READS → SISTER SHMOOZE Issue 874 · August 18, 2021

Shhh! It’s a Secret….

We Sisters, like everybody else, have our own little secrets

Shhh! It’s a Secret….

Whatever the reason, when you’re ready to reveal the secret, who are you most likely to share it with? Your mother, your spouse, your sibling, your best friend? Or maybe the secret is out, and you’re ready to tell it to the world?

We Sisters, like everybody else, have our own little secrets. And after writing our SisterSchmooze column for many years, we’ve come to feel like our readers in Family First are family.

So join us as we share our secrets. But — shhh — remember to keep our secrets to yourselves….

 

Shhh! Marcia confesses that…

I Got Kicked Out of First Grade

 

Yes it’s true. It all started back in the mid-’50s when there were few, if any, affordable Jewish preschools. I’d been an adored only-child for five years when my parents, struggling financially and new at American-style parenting, decided to send me straight to first grade in Bais Yaakov— without ever sending me to preschool… and right after presenting me with twin baby sisters! It didn’t help that I was one of the youngest in the class.

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