Parenting 551 articles

Ever have a child who digs in his heels when he doesn’t want to do what you ask him to do? What about the child who does not give up? The...

I recently received the following letter: My daughter is often complaining about her day in school. She seems to do well academically and has friends. She just seems to take things...

About a year ago, The New York Times published an article about Marshall Duke, a psychologist at Emory University. He was asked to explore ritual and myth in American families. What...

The summer is flying by and we’re trying to enjoy it. However, our thoughts never stray to far from Israel. I am glued to the computer, to the news reports coming...

My son is a CIT at a local day camp here. After the first day of camp, he complained, “My campers just don’t listen! It is really hard being a counselor!”...

It’s summertime and with it comes lots of down time. The best thing about the summer is that we loosen up our schedule. The worst thing about the summer is we...

Funny things happen when a group of young parents get together. We become like zoo-keepers, overlooking our little creatures from the sidelines, hoping to keep the damage at a minimum, and,...

Our boys have been found, murdered. As each of us in the Jewish world reels with shock, pain, sorrow, disbelief and anger, our own children, students, campers are undergoing their own...

This post originally appeared on finkorswim.com. The devastating news reverberates throughout the Jewish world. Our worst fears have been confirmed. We won’t be able to #bringbackourboys. It’s over. And for now,...

Many parents feel that their children are selfish. They will say: “I just broke my foot and I couldn’t come on my daughter’s class trip with her. She came home from...