Listen Mixed Blessing: The Beneficial and Detrimental Effects of Religion on Child Development among Third-Graders by John P. Bartkowski, Xiaohe Xu and Stephen Bartkowski – Excerpts (MDPI) AbstractPrevious research has linked parental religiosity to a number of positive developmental characteristics in ...
Listen Children do best when they are raised in a community that shares their parents’ values on fundamental issues. If the teachers at school are constantly, explicitly at odds with the parents’ views on a range of crucial topics, it’s ...
Listen Children are a parent’s best spiritual life insurance. A parent may have severe judgments leveled at him in the Heavenly Court. However, a defending angel contends, “True, according to the letter of law and Divine justice, this person deserves ...
Listen It is the duty of the educator to concern himself with the welfare of every student as if he or she were his own flesh and blood; just as he turns to his own child—out of love and devotion ...
Listen If we penetrate into the child’s soul and reflect on its workings, examining it delicately and truthfully, we will find that usually a child does not turn away from God all at once. He does not violate the Shabbat, ...
Listen One can’t say, adds Rav Boruch Sorotzkin, that Noach didn’t have the power of influence and that’s why he didn’t try to influence them. Since he was successful in raising his own children, he certainly would have been able ...
Listen Parenting is a weighty responsibility, perhaps the most important task of one’s entire lifetime. Yet most people approach this awesome responsibility with the assumption that all parents intuitively know how to raise their children and do not require any ...
