Parenting
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What Are We Supposed to Do When a Child is Chutzpadik?
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Rabbi Dov Brezak changes our perspective on chutzpah…and offers practical solutions. Let’s study chutzpah: Attitude, aka chutzpah, is all over the place. The likes of which we’ve never seen. Children calling their parents by their first names, children hitting their parents, children throwing things at parents, parents afraid of children basically. It exists. And some…
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The 6 Products Only a Big Sister Will Tell You About: Teen Edition
We’ve shared our favorite products for women, and now we’re here for the younger crowd. When we posted our list of feminine product recommendations, the feedback was immediately and overwhelmingly positive. And we took that to heart. We’ve gotten questions and requests for recommendations for products for younger girls, so now we’re back with a…
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How to Toilet Train a Child for the Nighttime
Whether it comes about naturally or you’re a mom of a really deep sleeper, you can still easily train your child to stay dry overnight. (For those of you who missed this post on training a toddler and are looking how to toilet train a child by day, you can start there. In that post,…
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How To Prepare Your Child For Surgery
How much do we want to say? What do they need to know? How do you explain? It is never easy, sending your child off to get a procedure done, no matter how minimal and “routine” it may be. Waving goodbye to your son or daughter, knowing that they are going into an operating room,…
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You’ll Love Our Adorable School Notes – Free Download!
Include these notes in your child’s backpack/lunch bag to send them your love throughout the long school day! This download includes four slightly different notes, so you can change it up each day of the week. It’s just nice to receive a note from mom. The templates make it easy for you to decide what…
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Talking Points: Stay Connected With Your Child Even from a Long Distance
Be prepared and you won’t waste another chance to reconnect on your next phone call. Some kids are just not good at phone calls. Chances are they’re not very good at responding to your questions about their day in person either, but when they’re living at home there’s a good chance you’ll get some conversation…
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Help! My Child Won’t Taste Any New Food
It’s super helpful to understand why your children only want the same foods. It’s also great to have some useful tools for getting those picky kids to widen their palate. You can probably relate to this. You offer your child something new to taste and they tell you right away that it’s yucky, gross, and…
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10 Things Not to Do When Your Kid Complains
It’s really not fun to listen to a child complaining. But it’s more manageable when we know how to handle it. I’ve always had a hard time with my kid’s complaints. It brought up a lot of feelings, unpleasant feelings such as, “I didn’t do enough.” Or, “I’m spoiling her. Can’t she just get on…
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A Child Went Behind His Mother’s Back. Rabbi Brezak Explains How to Respond.
If your child is doing dangerous things, often punishing doesn’t work. This is what does. Parenting Challenge: We allow my seven-year-old to ride his bike near the house. Our street is very long, and we let him go down the entire street; but he knows he has to stay near the house and come home…
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Want to Show a Graduate You’re Proud? Our Grad Gift Guide Is Here
Here are a few gift ideas that they’ll enjoy both now and as they move onto life’s next stage. They worked hard. It hasn’t been easy for our kids over the past couple of years, but they made it. And whether they’re graduating from elementary or high school, these are some items they may find…
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