I am privileged and humbled to make my story, Reach for the Stars, A Little Torah’s Journey, available and hope that children, parents and teachers will find it meaningful. The publisher, Pitspopany Press, is no longer in business and the rights to the story have come back to me. The book was…
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But, You Promised!
“Parents use promises for a variety of reasons—to bribe their child into doing what they want, to avoid a possible confrontation with their child, to spare their child from disappointment, to create hope in their child,” I wrote in an article for Glo online magazine in 2013. “But children are…
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Smart Phones Aren’t That Smart
On a recent visit with my daughter and grandchildren, my daughter asked them to greet me and my husband. The two children were busy on their iPads and weren’t even aware we were there. Suddenly, they came and embraced us with a hug and gave us a big kiss. The…
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A Baht Brit Naming Ceremony
The birth of my fourth grandchild, a girl, gave our family the opportunity to repeat a naming ceremony we first used almost 37 years ago when our second daughter was born. Influenced by the 60’s “do it yourself” The First Jewish Catalog and not yet members of a congregation, my husband…
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7 promises parents should never make
But, You Promised! “Parents use promises for a variety of reasons—to bribe their child into doing what they want, to avoid a possible confrontation with their child, to spare their child from disappointment, to create hope in their child,” says Sylvia Rouss, an early childhood educator and author. But children…
Read MoreAllowing Teachers to be part of the Process
When I spoke at the the National Jewish Early Childhood Network conference in November, I asked rhetorically, “How do we inspire our staff to develop Jewish literacy so that the children and families we teach, not only receive the best education, but the best Jewish education? How can a teacher…
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