The Confidence Cure

A final way to build self-esteem in your children and your family is simply to tell each other when you enjoy each other’s company.

Learning The Rules Of Asperger Syndrome

We know that the child is cognitively capable, so we ask ourselves, “Why can’t he just act like everyone else?”

Outside The Box

I daven that all of our children should have a true relationship with Hashem.

Who Is Recharging Your Battery?

I’d like to share some valuable insights that, with clear and meaningful understanding, will have a tremendous impact on our family’s future

What Are The Common Core State Standards?

Have you noticed that your child is doing something radically different from his cousins (even if they go to a school a block away from each other)?

Shidduchim: What To Look For In A Spouse

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

Are You A Caterpillar Or Butterfly

Have you ever seen pictures or a video of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly - what a miraculous site, truly a confirmation of the Creator constantly at work.

Making Good Choices

What’s the problem with our decision-making process? How can we deal with it even in this most stressful times?

Behaviors That Push Away Peers

Deep down Chaim is miserable and his parents are at their wits’ end.

Location, Location, Location

When dealing with a difficult situation as a leader, locate yourself above or below the line.

Decoding PDD And NVLD: Understanding The Alphabet of Disabilities

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

The Significance Of Saying Dayenu

The pictures had been removed from the wall a while back. Carefully and methodically, they had been placed in the back of her desk drawer, a spot that could be reached only if one were looking for something intentionally. Other pictures were inconspicuously hanging in the corner, situated on a wall blocked by a large, mismatched piece of furniture. There were also loose photographs, neatly stacked in their original envelope, discreetly placed in an unmarked folder located in the back of her filing cabinet.

Academic & Social Skills Insights #39

When you see your daughter acting in a positive way, let her know.

Are We Spoiling Our Children?

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

The Intensity of Gifted Children: Pros And Cons

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

Did You Know Anxiety Is Contagious?

Recognizing that uncertainty makes us think the worst, which almost never occurs, can help you overcome your worst moments.

How Can We Prevent Abuse?

Chaya's older yeshiva-bochur brother told her that there was no problem with his touching her body. He told her it wasn't against the Torah, and he seemed to know a lot more Torah than she did at the tender age of 6. He continued to touch her first over her clothes, but as the years passed, the abuse progressed to actual rape. Eventually he got married and started a family, appearing to function just fine to nearly everyone in the community. However, he left his younger sister, now in her late twenties, crippled - emotionally, sexually and spiritually.

Executive Function, Anger, Bullying

Q: My daughter’s teachers have been telling me that she has trouble with her executive functions. I know she is not organized and often forgets to finish her homework, but I am not sure exactly what they mean. Can you clarify the term?

Twice Expectational

Twice exceptional children have a combination of exceptional intellectual power and uncommonly formidable mental roadblocks.

What Is Introversion?

For those who are introverted, being with people often feels like it is sapping their energy – even if they themselves have great social skills.

Reframing (continued from October 15, 2010)

In this series we have covered many of the major ways to understand what makes a teenager tick. Now it's time to put all the pieces together and work towards restarting the relationship between you and your teenager.

The Tainted Tiara: The Class Queen Crisis

Girls use relationships to bully each other. This starts as early as preschool, when a girl realizes the supremacy of “I won’t be your friend anymore.”

Emotional Eating And Anxiety

This doesn’t mean that anyone who occasionally has a piece of chocolate as a pick-me-up is an emotional eater.

Response To Intervention: Preventing Failure Rather Than Fixing It

“So, Mrs. Cohen, we spoke on the phone about why Baruch is coming in today, but Baruch, why don’t you tell me why you think you are here?” “I’m bad at school,” Baruch said, barely glancing in my direction.“ Do you mean that you don’t get the grades you would like?” “No, I’m just not good at school. My teachers don’t like me, my tests are horrible, and my friends think I’m dumb.”

Eight Stages, Two Paths: Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages Of Development

The eight stages are usually by age (though in some cases the ages are fluid).

ADHD And Dyslexia

As children enter elementary school, and reading becomes an integral part of the curriculum, children with learning disorders begin to struggle academically.

Letter From Your Teenage Child

Dear Mommy and Daddy: Imagine how you would feel if you were told that, two years from today, our entire family would need to relocate to a different part of the country.

The Parenting Balancing Act

It is important to set high expectations, but they should be tied to effort and not results. Therefore, as a parent, you should always praise effort, and never praise results.

When All Else Fails, Play Gin Rummy

He recognized me before I recognized him. We were in Yerushalayim on different sides of the street. He was six foot two waving and yelling my name. “Noach, Noach, Noach Schwartz, the social worker! It’s me Yechiel Klein! Don’t you remember me?” He was wearing a hat, white shirt and suit and looked like a regular bochur from the Mir or Brisk. He did not look like the Yechiel I had met ten years earlier at a clinic in Boro Park.

Academic And Social Skills Insights #5

I have started wondering – which fears are normal and which are not? Is there a way to alleviate irrational fears?

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