Many thanks to Wendy Grinberg of URJ (Union for Reform Judaism) for contacting me after reading my article “10 Ways to Raise Resilient Kids in Turbulent Times” in The Huffington Post and inviting me to be interviewed for a series … Continue reading
Many thanks to Wendy Grinberg of URJ (Union for Reform Judaism) for contacting me after reading my article “10 Ways to Raise Resilient Kids in Turbulent Times” in The Huffington Post and inviting me to be interviewed for a series … Continue reading
When I was a 24-year-old graduate student, I had my first experience in a middle school classroom—as a young, inexperienced, vulnerable substitute teacher. On my first day filling in for a seventh-grade English teacher who was away on a brief … Continue reading
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young sang that we should teach our children well and feed them of our dreams, but for millions of parents of sons, dreams are only that, and boys are falling behind educationally at an alarming rate … Continue reading
I recently came upon a very short Boston Globe article—a paragraph, really—by a bullying expert in New Hampshire who stated, quite simply, that today’s school children are “the meanest ever” and that they have “more ways than ever to express that … Continue reading