Chinuch/Parenting

I recently took my daughter to three high school interviews and was struck by the difference in approach between the three. The first one gave the girls the passages in…

Whenever I try to make one of my children see reason and hear my point of view, I find that I have to explain myself and preach to try to…

On Purim, my husband and I went to drop off some food for someone in need. When I got there I realized that although I had brought challah, fish, chicken…

One of my children was going through a rough patch in school. Cutting class, not doing homework, acting with chutzpah towards their teacher and a whole lot more. We came…

The Rebbe writes in Sichos Haran (Rebbe Nachman’s Wisdom) #10: The wicked are full of regret, though they do not understand at all what regret really is. For this itself…

The Rebbe writes in Sichos Haran (Rebbe Nachman’s Wisdom) #6: It is very good to pour out your thoughts before G-d, like a child pleading before his father. G-d calls…

When I came to pick my baby up from her babysitter a few days ago, she told me that her fourteen month old has a terrible stomach virus and she…

It was a Wednesday evening. As usual, the cleaning lady was a no show. Since I arrived home from work, things were already hectic as Wednesday is laundry day for…

During lock down, it wasn’t easy to pass the time with such a large family. So I resolved to go on socially distant day trips to help pass the time.…

At Home With Rebbe Nachman In the third lesson of Likutey Moharan, Rebbe Nachman teaches us about the nature of influence, especially through speech. Our ability to influence others—our spouses, children, family,…