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When it comes to the health of our children, before we speak about healthy food choices, our children need healthy emotional makeup, which requires the right parenting style, self-esteem, and overall emotional health.

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Practical Emotional Health: The Secret to Raising Resilient Children: Modeling Emotional Regulation for Your Kids | Miriam Campbell
Episode 1 Practical Emotional Health: The Secret to Raising Resilient Children: Modeling Emotional Regulation for Your Kids | Miriam Campbell

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...

Insights from IFS: How Unresolved Childhood Experiences Affect Your Parenting | Shira Fruchter
Episode 2 Insights from IFS: How Unresolved Childhood Experiences Affect Your Parenting | Shira Fruchter

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...

Post Traumatic Parenting – Dr. Robyn Koslowitz
Episode 3 Post Traumatic Parenting – Dr. Robyn Koslowitz

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...

Raising Emotionally Healthy Kids: What Parents Need to Know | Dr. David Pelcovitz
Episode 4 Raising Emotionally Healthy Kids: What Parents Need to Know | Dr. David Pelcovitz

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...

Compassion Instead of Control: Parenting Style for Hearing & Empowering Children | Rochelle Garfield
Episode 5 Compassion Instead of Control: Parenting Style for Hearing & Empowering Children | Rochelle Garfield

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...

How to Parent with Purpose: Understanding Parenting Styles | Blimie Heller
Episode 6 How to Parent with Purpose: Understanding Parenting Styles | Blimie Heller

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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Helping Our Children Emotionally Regulate – Part 3 – Rabbi Dr. Dovid Lessin
April 8, 2024 Helping Our Children Emotionally Regulate – Part 3 – Rabbi Dr. Dovid Lessin

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...

Helping our children Self-Regulate – Part 2 – Rabbi Dr. Dovid Lessin
March 22, 2024 Helping our children Self-Regulate – Part 2 – Rabbi Dr. Dovid Lessin

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...

Helping our Kids Emotionally Regulate (Part One) – Rabbi Dr. Dovid Lessin
February 28, 2024 Helping our Kids Emotionally Regulate (Part One) – Rabbi Dr. Dovid Lessin

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...

Parenting Pitfalls: The Art of Correction – Blimie Heller
January 31, 2024 Parenting Pitfalls: The Art of Correction – Blimie Heller

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...

Choosing the Children We Have – Part 2 – Rav Dr. Dovid Lessin
December 28, 2023 Choosing the Children We Have – Part 2 – Rav Dr. Dovid Lessin

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...

Growth Oriented Parenting – Rav Mordechai Burg
December 22, 2023 Growth Oriented Parenting – Rav Mordechai Burg

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...

Choosing the Children We Have – Part 1 – Rabbi Dr. Dovid Lessin
December 18, 2023 Choosing the Children We Have – Part 1 – Rabbi Dr. Dovid Lessin

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 from Within – Rav Mordechai Burg
November 30, 2023 Parenting from Within – Rav Mordechai Burg

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...

I Learned It From You – Ben Sorer U’Moreh Part 11 – Rav Mordechai Burg
September 22, 2023 I Learned It From You – Ben Sorer U’Moreh Part 11 – Rav Mordechai Burg

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...

Control vs. Internalization – Ben Sorer U’Moreh Part 10 – Rav Mordechai Burg
September 13, 2023 Control vs. Internalization – Ben Sorer U’Moreh Part 10 – Rav Mordechai Burg

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...

Building A Forgiving Home – Ben Sorer U’Moreh Part 8 – Rav Mordechai Burg
August 31, 2023 Building A Forgiving Home – Ben Sorer U’Moreh Part 8 – Rav Mordechai Burg

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...

Hearing the Cries of Children in Pain – Ben Sorer U’Moreh part 7 – Rav Mordechai Burg
August 24, 2023 Hearing the Cries of Children in Pain – Ben Sorer U’Moreh part 7 – Rav Mordechai Burg

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...

Turning the Tide of Entitlement – Rabbi Dr. Dovid Lessin
August 11, 2023 Turning the Tide of Entitlement – Rabbi Dr. Dovid Lessin

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...

The Eight Habits of Highly Effective Jewish Parenting – Dr. Chaim Botwinick
July 28, 2023 The Eight Habits of Highly Effective Jewish Parenting – Dr. Chaim Botwinick

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...

Criticizing Our Children – Ben Sorer U’Moreh Series – Part 3 – Rav Mordechai Burg
July 25, 2023 Criticizing Our Children – Ben Sorer U’Moreh Series – Part 3 – Rav Mordechai Burg

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...

I’m So Mad: How to Help an Angry Child – Mrs. Adina Socolof
July 18, 2023 I’m So Mad: How to Help an Angry Child – Mrs. Adina Socolof

“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...

Listening to Our Own Messages – Ben Sorer U’Moreh P.1 – Rav Mordechai Burg
July 11, 2023 Listening to Our Own Messages – Ben Sorer U’Moreh P.1 – Rav Mordechai Burg

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...

Parenting Our Children Into Independence
June 29, 2023 Parenting Our Children Into Independence

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...

When Teaching Our Children is Only Half the Answer – Rabbi Dr. Dovid Lessin
May 14, 2023 When Teaching Our Children is Only Half the Answer – Rabbi Dr. Dovid Lessin

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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Helping Children Regulate Their Emotions
January 12, 2024 Helping Children Regulate Their Emotions

Enjoy this course from Adina Soclof on helping children regulate their emotions for emotional health month

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