Bethany S. Mandel

Wife to @sethamandel | @dcexaminer contributor | Writer & Communications | ✍️ 🎙️ @TheMomWars | Homeschooling mom to 👩🏻‍🦰🧑🏻‍🦰🧑🏻 👩🏻‍🦰🧑🏻‍🦰👱🏻‍♂️

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

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[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

I’ll be donating and it would sure be nice if @iamwesmoore stopped playing politics with my kids and opted Maryland in.

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[anu ❤️‍🔥 @taydream89]

there is a real crisis amongst millennial parents who are so terrified of inadvertently traumatizing their kids that they refuse to do anything akin to parenting lest it come across as authoritarian

[Tamar Ish Shalom תמר @tamarishshalom]

Quite astonishingly, I don’t think this story received enough attention. We’ve reached a point where a delegation of about 100 Jewish preschool educators, many of them American Jews from across the US, were subjected to a political purity test simply to attend a professional education program in Italy. Reggio Children, an institution internationally celebrated for its approach to early childhood education, demanded that they distance themselves from Israeli policies. 1/4 >>>

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

@tamarishshalom I was really shocked by it.

[Byron York @ByronYork]

This Washington Post story on Natalie Harp's family seems to have no journalistic purpose. It's driven by one source--the kooky brother who is estranged from the family, moved to Nicaragua, lives in a hut and, according to the Post, "said he is prepared to die violently for the cause of the Sandinistas." In an interview, the brother said of his Marxist revolutionary comrades: "Glory to the martyrs!"

The family is apparently terribly sensitive about the father's death in 2020 at age 61. They would prefer people not know that, despondent during the Covid lockdown, he killed himself. But the brother wants everyone to know, and he "provided an autopsy report and detailed account to The Washington Post," announcing to the world: "He hung himself in the garage."

It's not terribly newsworthy that some families have secrets, or that they have a member who "has lost contact with most of his relatives," as the Post says of the brother here. But what value did the Post see in becoming that estranged family member's megaphone? It's hard not to suspect that some at the Post are happy to malign Natalie Harp because she is a close aide to President Trump. But maybe they have some other motivation we don't know. In any event, a reasonable person would read this article and ask: Why are they telling me this?

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

@eericmyers @JackPosobiec Pretty and thin young girls get to dress like sluts.

Someone’s a perv 👀

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

@Eliana_Goldin The two top questions I always get are “how can you spend that much time with your kids” and “how do you get them to listen to you to do their schoolwork?”

Questions about curriculum and academics come much much later.

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

There’s something psychologically wrong about my generation as parents. They are allergic to exerting authority. They are overwhelmed by spending too much time with their kids because they’re out of control (due to no discipline) they can’t direct the education because kids don’t listen.

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

@lc_hobbs EXACTLY

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

We need to talk about the homecoming dresses, y’all.

If you would have had to sneak out of the house in order to wear that, don’t buy it for your daughter and then post it proudly online.

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

@dangainor The woman in Panter did. The case followed her.

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

Lyman is very confident I’m wrong. But when I asked if he would pony up on the legal bills if I am not, suddenly he clammed up.

Weird!

[Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky]

Bethany is totally wrong here.

In Williams v Panter the courts ruled AGAINST the grandparents and IN FAVOR of the mom, because the grandparents could not show the children were harmed by lack of visitation.

Also, note that the kids in question were teenagers-- the mom was prohibiting her kids from contacting their grandparents as much as she was prohibiting the grandparents from contacting her kids.

Also, note that Bethany makes it sound like the grandparents were acting as a team here-- the father's parents were divorced, remarried other people, and the nonbio parents also joined the suit.

Moreover, Bethany doesn't know that the grandparents said what she says they said. It was a juvenile family case and the records are sealed. The court never investigated the truth of the mom's claims about the texts because it wasn't legally relevant. Perhaps some unverified media reporting somewhere gives this claim, but I had not heard it in my prior awareness of the case, and when I asked Claude Claude was also unaware of the claim.

The grandparents may have disrespected the mom, but on every fact of this case, Bethany is just wrong.

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

“when Israeli military actions led captors to kill their hostages.” Nasty work from CNN. I’m not sure “Israel should have known if they tried to rescue civilian hostages, we’d happily slit their throats or use them as human shields” is quite the exoneration they think it is.

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

Please enjoy this very embarrassing story I shared on Instagram before Shabbat.

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

@bearshrugged @ShabbosReads It made me want to go to Alaska for sure

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

Read this over Shabbos. Really enjoyed and I strongly recommend. @ShabbosReads

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

@margaretoregon @lymanstoneky And how much could it cost parents in legal fees? What if they can’t afford the fees?

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

Hey @grok — are family court cases in Virginia available via public records?

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

@lymanstoneky You insisted that any filing was public. That was incorrect.

You insisted that there was a harm standard without consulting an attorney.

You are confident enough in Claude to publicly call my credibility into question. Put that confidence to the test.

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

@lymanstoneky lol nope. I am correct and you insist I’m wrong because Claude told you so.