Parenting & Education Articles by Other Authors

It’s the first dialogue there is between a father and his son in the Torah. It starts like this:
Isaac to Abraham: "My father?"
Abraham to Isaac: "Here I am, my son"

Kids have a right to know the objective of the hours they spend in school. Sadly, often the message they get is misleading.

When you come to think of it, a child needs the very same things a tree does in order to grow: "earth," "water," "sun" and "air"

The most blessed thing you can say to your children is, "I know you can do it"

Should a parent give a child a tangible reward, such as a prize or a food treat, when a child behaves properly, does his homework or helps around the house?

His cousin has one, his friends have it, but we have no intention of buying him one. How will I explain it to him?

Like the moon, your child may be lovely, but he is a reflector. You assert, she believes. You decide, he accepts. You give, she takes. Then comes the chaos of adolescence...

Chanie is playing ball in the living room; Mom is concerned that something might get broken. Who "owns" the problem? Chanie? Her mother? Or is it the relationship between parent and child that owns the problem?

A well-known rabbi once said to me, "Never write anything controversial. You'll only make enemies, and it won't help." So I hesitated to write this article...

Doing good without believing in reward is the flip side of doing good only for reward: in the one case, good is constrained to the metaphysical; in the other, it is limited to a crass physical expression... Both reflect a distortion of truth

She asks for what she needs, recognizes what she doesn't, and appreciates what she has. She never stops moving. Nothing is boring to her; everything has potential...

There is no such thing as a "meaningless" nursery rhyme. If it is nonsensical, it fills a child's mind up with nonsense

To produce the wunderkind mothers and fathers will put themselves and their child through a rigorous schedule of classes, concerts, museum visits... But parenting is as much about who you are than about what you do

They say that actions speak louder than words; but words can also be actions...

When we tell our children to run an errand for us, are we teaching them "responsibility" or are we teaching them how to transfer responsibility?

When children understand why we were created and why we are in this world, they become less anxious about the "what if" 's and more focused on to living each day to its fullest

Physicists are looking for ten dimensions. The Kabbalists speak of ten spheres of reality. And yesterday I bought my 10-year-old daughter ten bicycles

When you are starting off in life, it seems like you're mainly on the receiving end. But don't let outward appearances fool you. You are her mother, the one who gave birth to the mother inside her

It may seem odd that I am writing such a detailed letter. But I have noticed that it’s been very hard for people to talk about this, so I decided to step forward on my own and tell this story...

My spiritual mentor drinks heavily, straight from the bottle. Most of his wisdom is culled from the works of Dr. Seuss and of a certain purple dinosaur