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Parshah Parenting

Parenting lessons from the weekly Torah reading



Bo: Liberating Your Child
Bo: Liberating Your Child
Do we dismiss our child's issues as insignificant? Do we reassure him that this "little" incident will pass, without validating what he is experiencing, in this moment?
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Yitro: The Third Month Family
Yitro: The Third Month Family
"My children are constantly fighting with each other," laments Susan, a mother of three. "Will there ever be peace in my home?"
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Terumah: The Self-Made Child
Terumah: The Self-Made Child
My daughter is always complaining that "all the other mothers" always do their children's projects and homework for them...
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Ki Tisa: Proactive Parenting
Ki Tisa: Proactive Parenting
Tapping your child's essential goodness
Is there any benefit in compelling your child to do what is right, when he's only doing so because he cannot disobey you?
Vayakhel: Look Out For Those Pegs!
Vayakhel: Look Out For Those Pegs!
Building your child's character requires focusing on the "big" issues; but it also means not neglecting the "minor pegs" grounding his values
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Vayikra: A Great Smallness
Vayikra: A Great Smallness
As parents, we obviously believe that genuine self-esteem is important to our children's psychological and spiritual development. But how can we avoid the hubris and laziness that invariably accompany an inflated self-image?
Shemini: Food for Growth
Shemini: Food for Growth
Split hooves, cud chewing, fins and scales, a tradition of edible birds -- as lessons in parenting
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Matot-Massei: The Parenting Rod
Matot-Massei: The Parenting Rod
"One who spares the rod, hates his child" -- what is the parctical meaning in this adage for today's parent?
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