5 Jewish Tips for Handling Those Parenting Fails
03/22/2017 02:00:00 AM
Over Halloween, some 6th grade drama occurred among my daughter's friends. Typical stuff really: some girls in group costumes, other girls feeling left out, lots of chatter about who would be trick-or-treating with whomâ€"and then throw a boy-girl party into the mix. Nothing catastrophic happened, but it's junior high now and social situations can evoke uncomfortable and even...Read more...
Accidents Happen, but Parents Still Beat Themselves Up
03/15/2017 02:00:00 AM
By Perri Klass, M.D. March 6, 2017
What's the worst thing you ever did as a parent? What's the judgment call you would give anything to reverse, the regret that keeps you up at night? We've all got them; it goes with the territory.
Some of the sharpest are medical, when a parent feels responsible that a child is sick or hurt. As a...Read more...
Recipe for Hamantaschen
03/08/2017 02:00:00 AM
Filling:
Strawberry and/or Apricot Jam (the classic Prune is a favorite too) Chocolate chipsEquipment: 2 1/2 to 3-inch round cookie cutter (Can use a glass or...Read more...
8 Things Kids Need to Do By Themselves Before They're 13
03/01/2017 02:00:00 AM
Don't judge me if you happen to see my kids eating packaged Ritz crackers for school lunch.
Don't judge me if they're on the sidelines of PE because they forgot their uniform.
Don't judge me if they didn't turn in their homework because it's still sitting home on their desk.
What some may view as a lack of parenting, is what I...Read more...
The Misguided Desire of Wanting Our Kids to be Happy
02/22/2017 02:00:00 AM
It's both human, and typical of how we parent today: At the first indication of unhappiness from our kids, we rush in to fix it, serving, as Dr. Robin Berman explains, like human pacifiers. And while the intention is validâ€"why let a child suffer, when it's so easy to take the pain awayâ€"the ramifications of protecting our kids from dealing with the ups-and-downs of life have...Read more...
How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off
02/15/2017 02:00:00 AM
THEY learn to read at age 2, play Bach at 4, breeze through calculus at 6, and speak foreign languages fluently by 8. Their classmates shudder with envy; their parents rejoice at winning the lottery. But to paraphrase T. S. Eliot, their careers tend to end not with a bang, but with a whimper.
Consider the nation's most prestigious award for scientifically gifted high school...Read more...
Being the Voice in Your Child's Head
02/08/2017 02:00:00 AM
When my son first negotiated for the right to take the New York subway to school alone, I thought I was agreeing that he could take a very particular train from one specific stop to another specific stop at certain times of day (and after all, if he didn't arrive, I thought, the school would know something was wrong). He thought I was saying, the city is yours, my boy, go out and explore, now that...Read more...
3 Ways to Encourage Ownership of Learning
02/01/2017 02:00:00 AM
By Barbara Blackburn
Do you remember the first time you made a major purchase or invested in something really big that was yours? For me, it was my first car. I worked several summers as a lifeguard to save enough to buy a small red Toyota.
It took all of my savings, but it was mine. I washed it, took care of it, and had a special pride in knowing that it was...Read more...
Forget helicopter parenting. It's all about submarine parenting
01/25/2017 02:00:00 AM
Submarine parenting allows children to manage situations as they come up, without mom or dad hovering like a helicopter.
By Jaci Conry
I'll admit it: I'm in danger of becoming a helicopter parent.
After reading Julie Lythcott-Haims book, “How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Over-parenting Trap and...Read more...
The Clumsy Child
01/18/2017 02:00:00 AM
Years ago, I took care of a little girl whose mother worried tremendously about her clumsiness. When she was 4 or 5, my patient was still tripping and falling more than other children her age, her mother thought. She had trouble with the clapping games in her preschool. The mother was visibly distressed when she talked about this. She told me that she herself had been...Read more...
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