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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.

Parenting Our Children

Shidduchim: What To Look For In A Spouse

By Rifka Schonfeld

If you are stuck in a traffic jam, how does your date respond to the frustration of being late?

Parenting Our Children

Can You Choose To Be Happy?

By Rifka Schonfeld

It’s simpler because, ultimately, it doesn’t take that much more than what you already have to be happy.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

For years now, I have disagreed with him and despised his every word and action.

Parenting Our Children

Failing And… Parenting

By Rifka Schonfeld

Brown encourages us to see our failures, learn from them, and move forward.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Whenever we are together, I come home sad.

Parenting Our Children

How To Deal With Behaviorally Challenged Children

By Rifka Schonfeld

Elementary school children may occasionally throw tantrums when sitting down to do their homework. This will often occur if your child is inundated by work or exhausted from lack of sleep.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

It seems as if all we are doing is copying the ways of other nations.

Parenting Our Children

Language: Can You See Eye To Eye?

By Rifka Schonfeld

Even between people who speak the same language, there can be misunderstandings and miscommunication.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

We have been made to feel socially isolated and only marginally important.

Parenting Our Children

Do You Have a Persuasive Personality?

By Rifka Schonfeld

Your social skills work in your favor when it comes to persuading other people.

Parenting Our Children

Turn Off Your Worry Brain

By Rifka Schonfeld

Some say that the cortex is what makes us human.

Parenting Our Children

Parent Traps: How To Avoid Them And Raise More Confident Children

By Rifka Schonfeld

The difference is in whether you are giving your children advantages or assisting them in developing the skills that will put them at an advantage.

Parenting Our Children

Social Skills In School

By Rifka Schonfeld

In reality, if your child is asking you for help that means that he has not figured out a way to master the situation on his own.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

After struggling with depression for many years, I realized that my family was filled with toxic people.

Marriage and Relationships

Mindfulness And Hypnosis

By Moishe Herskowitz

Children who grow up with a parent who functions this way will often have issues of childhood abandonment, and live in a sort of black and white world.

Parenting Our Children

Gain Discipline, Gain Time

By Rifka Schonfeld

According to many, self-discipline is the single most important factor in determining a person's overall success.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

I love them all, but having 10 grandchildren under the age of 10 means it gets really wild.

Parenting Our Children

Alternative Assessments And Differentiated Instruction: Key Educational Terms Explained

By Rifka Schonfeld

Alternative assessments are an extremely important part of understanding what students know beyond the scope of tests and quizzes.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

It takes only one click to reach an inappropriate website and be exposed to...

Parenting Our Children

Simplify, Simplify!

By Rifka Schonfeld

Of course, we all know that we must practice everything in moderation – and that includes simplicity.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

How could they have just sent him back with a warning?

Parenting Our Children

The Intensity of Gifted Children: Pros And Cons

By Rifka Schonfeld

You aren’t given a manual when you have a child and there’s no survival guide to tell you what to do.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Having a strong and positive relationship with your children is like an insurance policy.

Parenting Our Children

Do You Communicate Or Connect – What’s The Difference?

By Rifka Schonfeld

If you enter a conversation, whether it is one-on-one, in a group, or in front of an audience and you are unprepared, uncommitted, uninteresting, or uncomfortable, most people will pick up on this right away.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Not having kids right now has not been a matter of choice for us.

Parenting Our Children

Seven Tips To Manage Anxiety In Children

By Rifka Schonfeld

Children who experienced an extremely disturbing event might subsequently develop generalized anxiety.

Parenting Our Children

Social Thinking

By Rifka Schonfeld

One of the most important lessons I learned is about the interaction between academics and social skills

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

The fighting is out of control and upsets my wife very much.

Parenting Our Children

Finding The Compliment In The Criticism

By Rifka Schonfeld

It’s important to understand that these triggers aren’t necessarily wrong.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Our children started acting out in ways we didn't understand.

Parenting Our Children

Difficult Conversations? They Don’t Have To Be

By Rifka Schonfeld

What if you differ on how things really happened and therefore now you feel like you have done something wrong?

Family / News Briefs / Holidays & Observances

10 Rosh Hashanah Hacks to Keep Your Kids (or Students) Engaged

By Raizel Druxman

The high holidays sometimes get us a little (or a lot) nervous and it’s easy to forget that it’s just as important for kids to be involved.

Parenting Our Children

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.

Parenting Our Children

Light A Fire Of Motivation

By Rifka Schonfeld

It’s the magic ingredient that adds a measure of oomph to the day.

Parenting Our Children

If You Want to Be Happy, Just… Be Happy?

By Rifka Schonfeld

If we start off happy, then we feel good about ourselves and what we are doing.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

Life may be challenging, but the light of Torah and Yiddishkeit will shine in you.

Parenting Our Children

You Asked, I Answered! - Teenage Myths And Facts, Reading Benchmarks, And Bedtime

By Rifka Schonfeld

There’s a lot of work taking place during adolescence that is necessary for teens to develop core character traits for the future. Teens who test boundaries and who have the passion to explore are working on themselves.

Parenting Our Children

Beyond The Classroom: Life Skills

By Rifka Schonfeld

What are these life skills? Why does your child need these life skills? How can you they gain and practice these life skills?

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

The purposely look down and away if I try to smile in their direction.

Marriage and Relationships

Constructive Anger

By Leah Field

Crying is the body’s natural way of releasing painful emotions and then healing.

Parenting Our Children

Money And Parenting: Why Money Is Your Children’s Business

By Rifka Schonfeld

Can’t we keep them innocent of all of this money stuff for just a little bit longer?

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

We went for therapy many years ago and today people refer to us as a couple with a very good marriage.

Parenting Our Children

Talk About Art, Change Your Life

By Rifka Schonfeld

Looking at art and describing what we see, helps sharpen our visual intelligence and communicate more effectively.

Parenting Our Children

Wisdom and Willpower

By Rifka Schonfeld

Those children who had managed to control themselves in order to get the second marshmallow had more successful marriages, careers, and lives in general.

Marriage and Relationships

Dear Dr. Yael

By Dr. Yael Respler

I want us to be able to grow together and get closer to Hashem.

Parenting Our Children

Stretch For Your Goals

By Rifka Schonfeld

The top of your to-do list should contain your “stretch” goal. This is your long-term goal like running the marathon.

Parenting Our Children

Literacy And Justice For All

By Rifka Schonfeld

When surrounded by books on a range of topics from science fiction and World War II to graphic novels and deep sea exploration, students will uncover a thrilling and electrifying world.

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