The danger of a child not getting enough attention in a large family are addressed in this session. The question is, how do we as parents treat each child as a unique individual, giving them the acceptance they crave and the self-esteem they need? Also hear how the variety of factors in such a family can affect different children.
Having a Mesorah of laws and customs as a backdrop within the home gives a child a secure confidence in Judaism. But what if we as parents never grew up with customs from our parents? Rabbi Greenwald addresses the nature of this question, and gives tips on how to make sure your children's school and home life are compatible, and how to use your higher education to earn a livelihood in a society that may frown on it.
Rabbi Greenwald wraps up this Education Series with a follow-through of a Q & A session to clarify earlier discussions. Related issues include choosing a school for your child, especially if they have different values than your own, and deciding if you’d prefer to send them out of town.
Parents that continue drilling educational messages into their child’s brain somehow believe it’s a compensation for the ‘chinuch' training they never received. Rabbi Greenwald, a renowned educator of educators explains ‘chinuch’ in layman’s terms for everyone to understand, and apply. Create a fertile environment for your child’s thirsty curious mind. Each session covers a specific topic that stands on its own.
Before we discipline our children, it's a good idea to first understand what in fact discipline is supposed to accomplish. Without paying attention to this goal we tend to slip into telling them "if you don't... then you can't..." Learn the fundamentals for upgrading their behavior without threats or manipulation. Also hear a few techniques on teaching and reaching without needing to get tough.
Communicating with the next generation is like trying to communicate with a computer - they blink, say the right things, and appear to be listening - but how much really gets through? Rabbi Greenwald, a noted author and speaker boils the concept of conversation down to four basic principles, and coaches us on how to work them into a two-way relationship with our kids.
How should you react when you're certain your child is lying to you? How can you open such a discussion without going on the offense? And what's the trick to calm down a room full of screaming children without joining the fray? Rabbi Greenwald offers sharp insights that achieve immediate results.
When we consider the chances for building a relationship with our kids we often hit the brick wall of not knowing who they are or how they think. Rabbi Greenwald explains how each of us have all the necessary tools to connect to our children, but are just unaware of them. Listen to several ways to create trust and open clear lines of communication.
Our goal is to raise children that will be responsible adults, but we often take away what little responsibility they actually have at school and at home. Hear this master educator speak about how to give our children room to step up to the plate to accept responsibility for their actions, and how to encourage honesty by the way we phrase our questions about the latest sibling rivalry. As usual, an exceptional talk by this parenting expert.
How can we motivate our children to achieve the objectives we feel are important for them? The first rule is sell, says Rabbi Greenwald. This child education expert gives valuable tools on how to make goals desirable, how success breeds success, and how truly believing in your child will give them the ability to soar higher than what you even thought they were capable.