Edwin Schild, B.A., M.Sc., NAMA Cert. II

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	Select an Archives Section: JP Archives: Parenting Our Children 301 Archived Articles Found in Parenting Our Children Next 20 Articles > 1) Posted Sep 01 2010 There Is Nothing New Under The Sun - Or Is There? By Edwin Schild, B.A., M.Sc., NAMA Cert. II From Ecclesiastes we learn the expression "there is nothing new under the sun" and when you read history you see how true this is. From cults to politics it seems as if nothing is really ever new. That also includes technology. While a certain invention or discovery can be classified as new, we often find it in nature much earlier. Arctic fish used anti-freeze in their bloodstreams long before people put it in their cars. There are airplanes, but birds flew much earlier; there are satellites, but the moon was there earlier. Whales are better than submarines and as for nuclear fusion; the sun and stars had that worked out long before we did. Read Article 2) Posted Sep 01 2010 Part 15 - Parents At Risk, Teens At Risk By Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch When parents come to talk to me about a troubled teenager, I often find it helpful to explore whether or not their marriage is causing their teenager to be at risk. Read Article 3) Posted Aug 25 2010 When They're Least Lovable By Blima Moskoff "I can't take it anymore!" "What happened? Is the baby teething again? You're exhausted." my husband asked, trying to read my thoughts, over the phone. Read Article 4) Posted Aug 25 2010 Our Son Wants To Leave Yeshiva By Rabbi Yakov Horowitz Dear Rabbi Horowitz: We were taken aback when our 18-year-old son just called us from Eretz Yisrael (we live in Europe) and told us that he was coming home and wants to immediately go to work. He said that he is wasting his time in yeshiva, and just can't take it anymore. He said that he will "run away from home" if we don't allow him to go to work. Our son was never much of a student in Hebrew or General Studies, but we honestly didn't think things were so uncomfortable for him. Help! What should we do? Anonymous Read Article 5) Posted Aug 18 2010 Part 14 - Communicating With A Teenager By Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch For both parents and teenagers alike, adolescence can be a very hard time. Unfortunately, when family life gets rough, communication tends to break down. And when it does, parents need to restore their ability to relate to their teenagers by learning about the rules of communication. Read Article 6) Posted Aug 11 2010 *One Size Does Not* Fit All Differentiated Instruction: Teaching Every Child How He Learns Best By Rifka Schonfeld, Director S.O.S (Strategies for Optimum Student Success) In a bustling fifth grade class Moshe is listening to a tape-recorded reading of President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, while Shmuel is writing a poem about a fight between brothers. Next to Moshe and Shmuel, Yerucham is reading an account of a former African-American slave. Read Article 7) Posted Aug 04 2010 Eight Ways To Stop Yelling At Your Kids By Miriam Adahan** Many parents admit they yell too much, but do not know how to avoid exploding when irritated. It takes effort and discipline to defeat any addiction, whether it's overeating or cigarette smoking and the screaming addiction is no different. Thankfully, when we really want to grow spiritually, we are given Heavenly guidance. Read Article 8) Posted Jul 21 2010 Communicating Effectively (Part III) Rapport: Establishing And Maintaining It By Debbie Brown Recently, I asked a family friend, a financial advisor, to share with me his perspective on the importance of rapport in the world of sales. In a general way, I knew that successful salespeople maintain good rapport with their clients. And so I was curious. Was the need for developing rapport in business any different than doing so in a parent-child relationship? To that end, I posed the following questions: "How do you establish rapport with a new client? And what do you believe is a key issue to creating rapport? Read Article 9) Posted Jul 21 2010 Dealing With The Explosive Child By Rifka Schonfeld, Director of SOS, (Strategies for Optimum Success) Kaboom! That's what we experience when there is an explosion. And that's exactly what we feel like when we are dealing with an "explosive" child. For those of you who don't understand what I'm talking about, consider yourselves blessed. But those who know exactly what it means for a child to "explode" for no apparent reason understand what a tremendous challenge this is. It's like living inside a simmering volcano. As one frustrated mother put it, "We are in a perpetual state of crisis." Read Article 10) Posted Jul 19 2010 The Arrowsmith Program By E. Pozanski If you have a learning disabled child I don't have to tell you about the myriad direct and indirect related challenges and associated frustrations. No doubt, you know them all too well. Read Article 11) Posted Jul 15 2010 Spending and Investing By Edwin Schild, B.A., M.Sc., NAMA Cert. II Francine has been coming to therapy for about a month. Her parents brought her due to problems and conflicts she was experiencing boat home, school and in the community. Like many teens, Francine did not see the value of therapy and felt the problems were only her parents' issues. Besides, if she needed to talk to anyone, she would speak with her friends. Read Article 12) Posted Jun 30 2010 Don't Let Homesickness Spoil Your Child's Summer By Sara Tova Best Every summer, all across America, parents put their children on buses bound for sleepaway camp. They wave good-bye, hoping their kids will have a wonderful time, make friends, learn new skills and come home happy and healthy. Hoping, sometimes, that the tears they see as the bus pulls away are just a fleeting show of regret at leaving home. Read Article 13) Posted Jun 23 2010 Part 13 - Teens Who Give Up Their Religion By Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch Let's look at an example of how mentoring improved the life of a teenager who had given up observing Jewish tradition. Read Article 14) Posted Jun 23 2010 Communicating Effectively (Part II) By Debbie Brown A political figure refuses to comment on a current news story in which he is involved.. In the hope of avoiding a scuffle with her parents, a teenager, who has broken curfew, quietly opens up the front door. As she makes a mad dash to her room, she tries to avoid being noticed and questioned. In both situations, a lack of communication may be perceived as failure on the part of the individual to take responsibility for his/her actions, and/or an admission of guilt. In such cases when the person does not say yes, the message being conveyed to others can be perceived as noby default, and vice versa. Read Article 15) Posted Jun 16 2010 De-escalating Crises at Home By Edwin Schild, B.A., M.Sc., NAMA Cert. II Mr. and Mrs. S. came into the office with their ten-year-old daughter, Sharon. They were very distraught and had numerous complaints about Sharon's behaviors. Not only was she having problems academically and behaviorally in school, but they also complained that every time they asked Sharon to do something at home it became a major altercation. They felt they were living from one crisis to the next. It seemed the more problems she was having in school, the more the problems she had at home. They had identified a direct relationship between the two. Their question to me was how to avoid such crises. Read Article 16) Posted Jun 09 2010 *'Kids In Pain': Brooklyn's Our Place* Helps Teens At Risk Of Being Forgotten By Tova Ross It is a testament to the authenticity and devotion of the staff at Our Place - a group of drop-in centers in Flatbush that cater to what most people would simply term "at-risk" teens - that none of them wanted to be mentioned by name in this article. In fact, the majority of them were even cautious about speaking with a reporter, so protective are they of their children, whom they consider very nearly their own. Read Article 17) Posted Jun 09 2010 Part 12 - Mentoring By Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch When the parent-teen relationship is strained or just needs improvement parents can utilize outside help to bring about a change. When necessary, one of the most effective ways of wielding indirect control is by having the teenager meet with a mentor. As a third person, uninvolved in family conflicts, a mentor is able to interact with a teenager and provide an informal means of solving problems at school, help the teen do homework or simply be a friend. Read Article 18) Posted May 17 2010 Communicating Effectively (Part I) By Debbie Brown The Meaning of The Communication Is The Response It Elicits Read Article 19) Posted May 12 2010 Teaching Organization To Children By Rivka Caroline Dear Rivka, Help! My 8 year old daughter is terribly disorganized! Any tips for helping me help her change ? I am motivated to teach her as it is making me crazy. Read Article 20) Posted May 12 2010 Part 11 - Moti's Street Clothes By Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch I once received a call from a forty-seven year old distraught mother whose seventeen-year-old son Moti had changed his style of dress, wearing jeans and refusing to wear a hat. She explained that he had gone through a difficult time in school and was now hanging around the house instead of studying in yeshiva. He was also mixed up with the wrong crowd and was associating with at-risk teenagers late at night on the street. She was very concerned as she had an older son who had gone "off the path" and was worried that Moti was going in the same direction. She believed that Moti could be helped if he would be willing to talk with someone. Read Article 301 Archived Articles Found in Parenting Our Children** Next 20 Articles >
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