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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 4 – Rabbi Dr. Dovid Lessin](https://genaleph.org/content/uploads/2024/05/Unlock-Your-Potential-How-Parenting-Can-Lead-to-Personal-Growth-385-x-300-px-27.png)
"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...
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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](https://genaleph.org/content/uploads/2024/03/Unlock-Your-Potential-How-Parenting-Can-Lead-to-Personal-Growth-385-x-300-px-21.png)
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](https://genaleph.org/content/uploads/2024/02/Unlock-Your-Potential-How-Parenting-Can-Lead-to-Personal-Growth-385-x-300-px-14.png)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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](https://genaleph.org/content/uploads/2023/12/Unlock-Your-Potential-How-Parenting-Can-Lead-to-Personal-Growth-385-x-300-px-5.png)
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...
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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](https://genaleph.org/content/uploads/2023/09/Father-Day-Your-Story-385-x-300-px-2.png)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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](https://genaleph.org/content/uploads/2023/07/Criticizing-Children-385-×-300-px.png)
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...
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“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...
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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](https://genaleph.org/content/uploads/2023/06/Independence-1.png)
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](https://genaleph.org/content/uploads/2023/05/Gray-and-Red-Simple-Minimalist-Classroom-Announcement-Instagram-Post-385-×-300-px.png)
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