Parenting Our Children

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

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

Some say that the cortex is what makes us human.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

What can we, as a community, do to fight and prevent bullying? There are several important steps we can take, and thankfully, many yeshivos are beginning to implement these essential changes.

We want our children to be confident and explore, but we also want to have some sort of control over our their lives.

He argues that the advanced math we require in high school is beyond most students abilities.

We read books of poems and prose – Some of these and some of those. Read some too, and you’ll agree, Books are good for you and me!

Of course, there are exceptions to every rule and some kids are resilient and are able to form a positive sense of self regardless of the way in which they were parented.

Ridley argues that as a society we are constantly building on an exchange of ideas.