Welcome back to another episode of the Jews Next Door, we have an amazing opportunity this week to hear from Miriam Campbell, the founder of Skills for Connection, which...
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Welcome to another episode of The Jews Next Dor! Today's guest is Shira Fruchter, MSW, IFS Level 3, Certified Clinician and Supervisor. Shira explains the basic concepts of Internal Family...
Welcome to another episode of The Jews Next Dor! Our guest today is Dr. Robyn Koslowitz, one of the great leaders in our generation in the parenting...
Welcome back to another episode of The Jews Next Dor! We have the absolute pleasure of sitting with the famous David Pelcovitz, Gwendolyn, and Joseph Straus Chair in Psychology...
Welcome to another episode of The Jews Next Dor! We have an incredible opportunity to talk to Rochelle Garfield, a speech-language pathologist, a dyslexia lecturer, and an author. She...
What are 4 main parenting styles? What is your parenting style? Are you helping or hurting your child? Welcome to another episode of The Jews Next Dor! This episode kicks...
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"Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me." It was never quite clear as a child why words shouldn't hurt. It certainly...
One of the great mysteries of the kitchen, I've learned, is that the same dish can turn out differently every time (I refer the reader to the Lessin cookie...
Now that we've learned the art of containment - expanding our hearts and minds to encompass our children's emotional worlds - we can lay out strategies to...
Emotional coaching did not appear on the list of jobs we thought we were signing up for when deciding to become parents. We were aware of the...
As parents, our journey involves guiding our children to learn from their actions and choices. It's a delicate balance to strike, as we want to ensure that our approach...
In our last article, we discussed the importance of choosing the kids we have so that they don't grow up feeling like impediments to our happiness. We explained...
A simple question: What is the mission statement of parenting? Every child is a unique soul sent down to this world to fulfill a particular mission. As parents we have...
I used to hate cliches. Now I love them. Sometimes there's just no better way to neatly say what you're trying to express than to catch a...
Parenting is a lonely job. It can bring up deep feelings of helplessness, powerlessness and unworthiness. We don’t talk about this enough and when we don’t talk...
Thus far the Sugya of Ben Sorer U’Moreh has yielded some incredible parenting strategies and thought provoking ideas. Let us once again examine these wonderful pesukim in order to...
As we continue our exploration of the Ben Sorer U’Moreh we are now ready to delve into what type of Chinuch model our children need in order to stay...
As we continue to reap the rewards of studying the Sugya of the Ben Sorer U’Moreh let us turn our attention to a fascinating halacha. The Ben Sorer U’Moreh...
We have become accustomed to hearing that the wayward and rebellious son, the Ben Sorer U’Moreh, never actually happened. Why then does the Torah spend time teaching us the...
As the dismissal teacher directed traffic at pick-up, she noticed a fourth grader exit the gate and walk towards his father’s car, positioned just a few spots back in...
As we know, the challenge of parenting is not a “one-size-fits-all” endeavor; nor does an effective parenting approach for one child necessarily transfer or apply to another child in...
Nine years ago I was hospitalized In Haddasah Ein Kerem for a month with a ruptured appendix. I was admitted into the ICU where I was on a constant...
“My kid is always flying off the handle about the silliest things!” “Is it normal for my pre-teen to be slamming doors in the house when she’s mad?” “Everything I say...
כִּי־יִֽהְיֶ֣ה לְאִ֗ישׁ בֵּ֚ן סוֹרֵ֣ר וּמוֹרֶ֔ה אֵינֶ֣נּוּ שֹׁמֵ֔עַ בְּק֥וֹל אָבִ֖יו וּבְק֣וֹל אִמּ֑וֹ וְיִסְּר֣וּ אֹת֔וֹ וְלֹ֥א יִשְׁמַ֖ע אֲלֵיהֶֽם: וְתָ֥פְשׂוּ ב֖וֹ אָבִ֣יו וְאִמּ֑וֹ וְהוֹצִ֧יאוּ אֹת֛וֹ אֶל־זִקְנֵ֥י עִיר֖וֹ וְאֶל־שַׁ֥עַר מְקֹמֽוֹ: וְאָֽמְר֞וּ אֶל־זִקְנֵ֣י עִיר֗וֹ...
In previous articles we laid out the following concepts: Children already have everything they need to become autonomous adults. Our responsibility is to create the appropriate environment for them...
At last year's Agudath Israel of America convention, Rabbi Joey Haber addressed the audience on raising children in the age of technology. Rabbi Haber pointed out that roughly every...
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Enjoy this course from Adina Soclof on helping children regulate their emotions for emotional health month