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"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." -Benjamin Spock
Calling all parents who have ever found themselves wondering:...
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“The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than for their achievements, it's more likely that they will reach their true potential.”
― The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
― The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
“If we want to give our children what they need to thrive, we must honor their basic nature- boyish or girlish, introverted or extroverted, wild or mellow.”
― The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
― The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
“A Hasidic teaching says, "If your child has a talent to be a baker, don't tell him to be a doctor." Judaism holds that every child is made in the divine image. When we ignore a child's intrinsic strengths in an effort to push him toward our notion of extraordinary achievement, we are undermining God's plan.”
― The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
― The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
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