How can we bring G-d into the classroom, into our homes, and most importantly, into our children’s hearts and minds?
Tag: education
The State of Orthodox Belief
Teaching Kids How to Fail
Children need to learn from failure, just as successful adults do.
Failure Goes to Yeshivah: What I’ve Learned From the Failure Narratives of My Students
Students are asked to consider, some for the first time, what is the arc of their religious narrative? What types of stories are their religious lives telling?
Reclaiming Happiness in the Digital Age
What is it about technology that allows it to wreak chaos on our mental states?
Healthy Tech Habits for Kids
1. Have a set time when devices (cell phones, iPads, tablets and the like) must be off and out of reach. Go dark for dinner. 2. Have a central charging station where teens have to leave their phones and iPads to charge overnight. This is one of the best...
Letters Summer 2018
Can any parent take the blame for a child going “off the derech”? By the same token, can a parent rightly take credit for raising “religiously resilient” children?
A Community in Search of a Culture
I fear that if we fail to develop a culture that effectively infuses our youth with a strong Orthodox Jewish identity, our community will eventually dwindle, with some, overwhelmed by the religious challenges, forfeiting their integration into secular society and others simply forfeiting their Orthodoxy.
Raising Religiously Resilient Children
Chinuch begins with parents deepening their own relationship with Hashem, making it real, and sharing that enthusiasm with their children.
Making a Seder for the Post-Millennial Generation
Getting and keeping the attention of people of any age during a Seder, a meal with a surfeit of readings and rituals that can stretch over several hours, is always difficult. But it is particularly challenging for teenagers and young adults at the table.
A Parent’s Job Is Never Done
As our children reach adulthood, many of us tend to abandon our identity as parents altogether. By relinquishing our parental responsibilities, we diminish ourselves and our children.