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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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Compassion Instead of Control: Parenting Style for Hearing & Empowering Children | Rochelle Garfield
Episode 1 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 2 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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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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