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Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Decoding PDD And NVLD: Understanding The Alphabet of Disabilities

By Rifka Schonfeld

Kids with NVLD are very verbal and often do not have academic problems until they get to the upper grades in school.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Marriage is all about compromise and making sacrifices.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Teenagers: Be Honest, Gain Confidence, Make Lifelong Friends

By Rifka Schonfeld

How much of yourself can you reveal to your friends? How much do you hide because you fear rejection?

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Chaya is frightened of being like her mother whom she considers a push-over. She prefers to be like her father who is the dominant one in the family.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Be Kind… To Yourself

By Rifka Schonfeld

In order to see ourselves positively, we inflate our egos and look down on others. And, in our society, we also beat ourselves up when we don’t feel special.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Is mirror imaging something that is important for child development?

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Good Grief: Learning To Cope With Tragedy

By Rifka Schonfeld

As with most problems in her life, Sandberg approached this one logically. She asked her esteemed friends who are world renowned psychologists and professors for a plan.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Children learn more from what we do than from what we say.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Anxiety Q & A: The Unusual Places Anxiety Rears Its Head

By Rifka Schonfeld

Therefore, large servings of both compassion and patience are also necessary remedies for the problem.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Habits and Habit Stacking

By Rifka Schonfeld

Habits are so powerful that unless you actively work on fighting it, your brain stops fully participating in decision-making and focuses on other tasks.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Mindshift: Fake It Until You Make It… Great!

By Rifka Schonfeld

Many people who switch careers in the middle of their lives feel that they are fakes, and this feeling is labeled - the imposter syndrome.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Ultimately we don't truly understand Hashem's plan. All we can do is our hishtadlus.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Sensory Processing Disorder Q&A

By Rifka Schonfeld

With language, children with autism often speak late and when they do its in a monotonous tone.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

My wife comes from a dysfunctional home where her mother always put her father down.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Emotional Intelligence 2.0

By Rifka Schonfeld

ou can assess your emotional intelligence through a variety of tests in order to understand where you stand on the EQ range, however, as I mentioned before EQ is not fixed and is easily raised through your own actions.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Are We Spoiling Our Children?

By Rifka Schonfeld

Psychologists and journalists argue that in this new age of parenting, we are producing entitled and spoiled children.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Young people today do not realize how bad anti-Semitism can be.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Rachel's Story

By As Told To Malkie Schulman

After that traumatic summer, we sent her back to school. But it was a nerve-wracking time. We lived in trauma and fear.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Don’t Get Stuck!

By Rifka Schonfeld

Susan David begins her book Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life with the following story: A well-regarded captain stood on the bridge of a British battleship watching the sun set across the sea. As the story goes, the captain was about to head below for dinner when a lookout […]

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Many people have told me that they wished they would have purchased life insurance when they were younger and in better health.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

I Don’t Have Time for That

By Rifka Schonfeld

If we want to feel good about our careers, our relationships, and ourselves at the end of the day, week, or year, we need to assess what our priorities are and then schedule them into our weeks.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Cracking The Code: Social Skills Coaching

By Rifka Schonfeld

You probably automatically crossed a one specific leg over the other. Now, switch legs. Does this feel unnatural? Probably.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Believe it or not, getting divorced is sometimes easier...

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Out Of Our Minds: Learning To Be Creative

By Rifka Schonfeld

If we are to survive and flourish, we have to think differently about our own abilities and make the best use of them.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

.He tells me he feels terrible and does not mean to hurt me.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Homework: The Secret To Success

By Rifka Schonfeld

Many people feel this rule is for teachers; that is, that teacher should give only a certain amount of homework.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

You are now being challenged to believe in Hashem and to daven even though you are in great pain.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

The Gift of Failure

By Rifka Schonfeld

It is just this persistence or perseverance that we need to teach our children.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

My mother-in-law and I have had our problems since the beginning of our marriage.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Learning The Rules Of Asperger Syndrome

By Rifka Schonfeld

Only as an adult was O’Toole diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. That is when things fell into place for her.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Often people think that when yo hit rock bottom, divorce is the only option.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

The Trouble with Boys

By Rifka Schonfeld

In other words, our educational system that has been revamped over the years to accommodate better and more education for women, might be failing our boys.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

I feel terrible for her and I tell her to relax, but she is a perfectionist. The baby and her schedule drain her completely.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

No One Understands You

By Rifka Schonfeld

How can we overcome this perception error? How can we ensure that people who meet us for the limited amount of time (in the workplace or in school) perceives us as we are?

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

The Science Of Making Friends (and Shidduchim)

By Rifka Schonfeld

She says that most people believe that making friends is an art.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Where is her empathy and understanding for me?

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

ADHD: Boys, Girls, Men, And Women Q & A

By Rifka Schonfeld

Many psychologists and educators theorize that girls are less likely to be diagnosed with ADHD because their symptoms differ greatly from those of boys.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

I so wish my husband respected and appreciated me for what I do...

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Bullying Q & A

By Rifka Schonfeld

When children feel that their own emotional needs are met, they are better able to recognize the emotional needs of others.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Sometimes when looking at our lives we see nothing but an empty box, but if we look deeper, we will find the kisses.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Why Say “No?”

By Rifka Schonfeld

Like I said to you before: never take kids to a store All you're gonna hear is: we want more and more…

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Having a constant critic around is like having someone hitting you over the head on a regular basis.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Little Kids, Bullies, And Community: Working Together To End The Bully Epidemic

By Rifka Schonfeld

This casual observation will give you the ability to easily understand when something is wrong during the unavoidable social struggle.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Spelng: Wat’s the Poynt?

By Rifka Schonfeld

Some people object to the practice of invented spelling, arguing that it produces bad habits that can be carried over into adulthood.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Their constant favoring of our family only breeds jealousy and hostility.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

...Israel is a beacon of light in a sea of Islamic darkness...

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Read with Your Eyes… and Hands and Legs: Kinesthetic Learning

By Rifka Schonfeld

Kinesthetic learning is not for everyone. In fact, for some it can be a more difficult form.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Speak Like A Pro

By Rifka Schonfeld

Of course, these moments should also be related to your topic of expertise and should not simply be there for the shock effect!

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Want To Make Good Decisions? Wrap It Up!

By Rifka Schonfeld

Why is it so hard to make decisions? Why do we make so many poor decisions?

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Company can rob your children of special attention and time with you.

Parenting Our Children

Phonemic Awareness, Shmonemic Awareness

By Rifka Schonfeld

As phonemic awareness is developed, children should become interested in how words are portrayed in print.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Before or After? The Resource Room Debate

By Rifka Schonfeld

There is a debate within educational circles today as to whether resource rooms or learning centers should remediate or accelerate.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

I am now engaged to a loving, wonderful woman who is really not my imago.

Parenting Our Children

Nurturing Gifted Children

By Rifka Schonfeld

Along with higher than average intelligence, gifted children often have stronger than average emotions.

Marriage and Relationships / From the Paper

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

The conversations always start with "Do you have kids?"

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

A Letter From A Mother In Pain

By Anonymous

What follows is story of a regular family and a tragedy that unfolded while we were not looking.

Parenting Our Children / From the Paper

Brains: Making Connections

By Rifka Schonfeld

The best thing to do is to help your child not only develop both sides of their brain, but also to connect the two sides.

Parenting Our Children

Teenage Brains: Mindfulness And Anger

By Rifka Schonfeld

Anger is a natural response to threats and it allows us to fight and defend ourselves when we feel attacked.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Maybe my letter with inspire people to appreciate what they have.

Parenting Our Children

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Say No to the Fear

By Rifka Schonfeld

Each of us knows what it feels like to be anxious or apprehensive: the night before a big test, going on a date, or when preparing for Yom Kippur. So, how do you distinguish that normal anxiety from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Being in a warm and welcoming community is so important.

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