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Torah Lessons for the Home — TL Vayeitzei 5784

Выпуск: Torah Lessons for the Home — TL Vayeitzei 5784. Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. ‫ב"ד‬ RABBI SHIMON GRUEN Torah Lessons for the Home GETTING TO THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM The dream of Yaakov Avinu on his way to Charan contains many promises made to him by Hashem, relating to both Eretz Yisrael and Am Yisrael and concluding with a promise that Hashem “will not desert” him which, according to the Medrash, refers to parnassah. ••• The mother asking the question describes how she has already asked her pediatrician for advice, but she hasn’t accepted it as it’s “Old-School.” It’s true that new ideas, methods and suggestions regarding chinuch habanim have been introduced over the past few generations, and many things that parents and teachers once said, would never be said today. The mother lot more awareness of the need to take sensitivities into describes her sleep-deprivation, and presumably this also account, for instance— and so we often find “Old-School” applies to her children, who are getting woken up every advice hard to accept. A mother has a responsibility Here, the pediatrician told the mother that the to make sure she gets enough sleep so that she can be situation is “her fault,” and no one likes to hear that they’re a good mother to her children, and that means that she to blame for anything. Sometimes, we see : What I’d like to suggest is that when the pediatrician adults who habitually behave in selfish and unwise ways, HOME told this mother that her daughter’s behavior was “her and very often, it’s because they’ve always been allowed fault,” he didn’t mean that she made the problem occur. But it can imply finding an effective means of on the floor in the parents’ bedroom for the other three solving a problem so that everyone benefits, and doing so children so that they don’t get woken up while the four- by being consistent and clear with what you can’t or won’t year-old gets used to sleeping normally. through with consequences, so people figure, “I’ll manage It’s usually not a good idea to send the four-year-old somehow—we can deal with this, even though I’d love for to sleep somewhere else for the three days that you hope the problem to

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Torah Lessons for the Home

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24 ноября 2023 г.

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Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary