Schlopping: Developing Relationships, Self-Image & Memories (noun, schlep+love+shopping) - Softcover

Mendlinger Ph.D., Sheryl E.; Magen Esq., Yael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0990952509 ISBN 13: 9780990952503

Publisher: Me & Ma, Co., 2015

Synopsis

Two completely different people, who happen to be a mother and daughter, find answers to life’s challenges through their invented wor(l)d of schlopping. Sheryl and Yael have created a new concept, a new word, schlopping [schlep+love+shopping], defined as the ritual of schlepping with someone you love while shopping. Schlopping is written in an open and honest way, with compassion and humor, and makes the reader both laugh and cry at the same time. The authors take you on a riveting journey as they expose and share inner secrets and intimate moments of their relationship as mother and daughter that have never been revealed with one another before. Schlopping will make people think about shopping in a positive way and make you understand how an everyday activity, such as shopping, can be so simple, yet can be so powerful, and have such great impact on your lives. Each chapter sparks a different memory, elicits a different emotion, and focuses on a different relationship. The goal of the book is to make people think of schlopping as a positive tool to deal with life. Schlopping makes readers think of their own schlopping experiences and invokes the need to pick up the phone and call their schlopping buddy. Schlopping opens the channels of communication, allows loved ones to spend time together, and shapes their view of the world and themselves. Sheryl and Yael deal with tensions and disagreements, reveal their secrets and fears, and provide the reader with the opportunity to gaze at oneself and others in the mirror. Schlopping with a loved one is what makes it unique, and the effect it has over the life span is what makes it important. This book is about life and relationships in every sense. You know you have gone schlopping when you arrive home covered with sweat from the schlep, a heart filled with love, and bags in your hands.

About this title

About the Author

Sheryl E. Mendlinger, Ph.D., is a daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother and has been part of a living four-generation lineage of women most of her life. She received her B.A. in English literature and linguistics and her M.A. and Ph.D. in education from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. Sheryl’s academic expertise and publications are in understanding the inter-generational transmission of knowledge and health behaviors from mother to daughter in multicultural populations. She has worked for over thirty years in various universities as a program director and teaching professor in women’s health, including in an educational program for undergraduate studies for men and women prisoners in Massachusetts. As a two-time breast cancer survivor, she became a promotional speaker and advocate for wellness through dragon boating and rowing. Sheryl loves to schlop, cook, knit, sew, swim, spend time with her family, and laugh. Yael Magen, Esq., is a daughter, granddaughter, wife, and the mother of two young children. She is a graduate of Northeastern School of Law, Boston, MA and of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel in International Relations and Media and Communications. She has been a social organizer and a mayoral candidate and has worked in government and nonprofits that work to advance job creation and wealth generation. She ran for Mayor of Beer Sheva, Israel at the age of 26. Her legal practice in Boston, MA--Multigenerational Family Law and Taxes, LP--helps families that have physical, financial, and emotional responsibilities for two or more generations with finances and estate and other legal issues. Her hobbies include dancing classical ballet, writing songs, singing off key, spending time with her family, and schlopping.

Review

"Schlopping" is a beautiful dialogue that is only nominally about families and shopping. What it truly captures is all the spaces in between: the love, the pressure, the body image questions, illness, money, terrorism, parenting, beauty, materialism, and womanhood. And boobs. Mostly it is a lovely piece of window-shopping, a fleeting glimpse into the life of a family that has so much to say about life, and love." - Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor, Slate "Schlopping is marvelous. It contains humor, philosophical moments, sadness, happiness, and all of life's emotions in one book. I found myself laughing, crying, and most of all remembering my own life experiences through shopping. Thank you for sharing such a poignant and motivating life story around a simple theme of everyday shopping. May this book help others to cope with the many challenges life hands us." -Virginia A. Greiman, author of Megaproject Management: Lessons on Risk and Project Management from the Big Dig "I just love it. Schlopping is heartwarming, interesting, and funny. It is written and organized in a magical way that brings the experiences and family alive to the reader." -Barbara Rosenstein, author of English with Interest "Schlopping catches the essence of the relationships between generations who bonded and more importantly shared during artfully disguised shopping episodes. Many moments are embedded in stores, from Christmas displays to tag sales, just browsing, and catching glimpses of life. All parents of teenagers should read the wisdom shared by the mother-daughter team and learn from their honestly described experiences." -Marikim Bunnell, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital "A wonderful book that uncovers in the mundane the deepest secrets and the deepest joys flowing between mothers and daughters; well-told and well-crafted." -Rabbi Joseph Polak, author of After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring "Schlopping reminds us that the strongest family bonds, entwined with small intimate moments, shared ordinary activity and plenty of affection, can sustain and uplift a family through life and beyond." -Michael Levy, frequent contributor to the Jewish Blog, "The New Normal"

Edition details

• Publisher: Me & Ma, Co.
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0990952509
• ISBN 13: 9780990952503
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Voorhees Roxie
• Number of pages: 240