The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Timeless Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
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The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Timeless Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
I once read a beautiful teaching attributed simply to “a modern educator.” It read: “Try to see your child as a seed that came in a packet without a label. Your job is to provide the right environment and nutrients and to pull the weeds. You can’t decide what kind of flower you’ll get or in which season it will bloom.”
Wendy Mogel • The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Timeless Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
Opportunities to practice derech eretz include greeting people, inviting them into our homes, and speaking about other people in a respectful way whether or not they are within earshot.
Wendy Mogel • The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Timeless Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
A problem can be fixed, but a true limitation requires adjustment of expectations and acceptance of an imperfect son or daughter. Parents feel hope if their restless child is actually hyperactive, their dreamy child has ADD, their poor math student has a learning disorder, their shy child has a social phobia, their wrongdoing son has “intermittent
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Your most lasting legacy, the only one that really matters, is how your children will treat their fellow creatures and the world you’re leaving them.
Wendy Mogel • The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Timeless Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
Too many parents want everything fixed by the time their child is eight. They want academic perfection, a child as capable as any other child in the Western hemisphere. Children develop in fits and starts, but nobody has time for that anymore. No late bloomers, no slow starters, nothing unusual accepted! If a child doesn’t get straight A’s, his par
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Judaism recognizes that it is possible to use food as a potent vehicle for holiness and family unity. Through the proper attitude toward food and the proper environment for eating, spiritual ideals can be transmitted into daily living.
Wendy Mogel • The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Timeless Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
your main focus should be on short-circuiting arguments, letting go of your wish to reach consensus, and taking advantage of opportunities to let your child practice honoring you.
Wendy Mogel • The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Timeless Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
If boys risk getting their spirits crushed in early elementary school, girls face a different challenge—fulfilling impossible expectations in adolescence.
Wendy Mogel • The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Timeless Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
the prohibition against startling another person.