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The Absolute Requirement
There is one absolute requirement in educating children, whether at home or in the classroom – without it, you have no hope of teaching the child anything…
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The True Loving Father
A young teenager with divorced parents shares his loneliness in a letter to Rabbi Lazer Brody. ” My father used to send me a plane ticket to visit him during summer...
Star of the Show, 1
The highlight of a little girl’s school year, usually before Purim, is the Siddur party where all the 'big girls' receive a siddur...
Star of the Show, 2
Our daughters will remain pure and innocent for as long as mothers allow them to. It is up to a mother to be the trail guide of...
Education with Love
In Part 1 of Rabbi Shalom Arush’s new 5-part series on child-rearing, we see how parents often take children’s behavior as a personal insult, when the child had no such intent.
Their Little World
There are three tragic, but all too common, mistakes that parents make when raising their children. If we avoid them, they grow up to give us joy in this world and the next...
The Garden of Emuna Program
Rebbetzen Chana B. Siegelbaum tells about Midreshet B’erot’s exciting new fall semester program for women that combines Torah, agriculture, emuna, and the love of our Holy Land.
The Power of Love
There was an eerie silence in the Polish orphanage. Suddenly, the Rebbe yelled from the depths of his soul, “Shma Yisroel, Hashem Elokenu Hashem Echad!”
No Room for Anger
Whatever a parent does, a child construes as accepted norm of behavior. Violent parents can't expect calm and peace-loving children.
The Power of Personal Example
If a mother’s skirt covers only half the knee, the daughter’s will only cover half the thigh. When parents don't lovingly serve Hashem, the children stray…
Robots or Educated Kids?
True Torah education should produce self-motivated, educated, spiritually cognizant lovers of G-d and fellow man, and not robots. One tiny burnt fuse deactivates a robot…
Parental Guilt Trips
A veteran educator who has helped hundreds of rebellious youth come home to Judaism addresses the painful problem of parental pain and guilt in this encouraging article.
Amalek and Linda
Linda, 17, wakes up one morning, and decides that she wants to discard the ways of her upbringing. All she wants is a good time. Yet, she can’t answer her own questions…
Teen Tantrums
Parents often confuse love, which can never be too much, with spoiling. Spoiling is giving in to negative behavior and failing to maintain clear boundaries…
Who Do I Pick, Dad or God?
A seventeen year old asks, “Why is G-d putting me to such a cruel test, and making me pick between Him and Dad? What should I do? I feel like I'm torn apart…”
Why Won’t They Listen?
Education, yes; tyranny and insult, no! Children are inclined to listen to what a parent has to say when they know that the parent regards them with dignity.
The Worst Sin
Anyone who says that murder is the worst sin in the world is wrong - child abuse is. At least with murder, the victim is dead and doesn’t have to suffer so much pain…