This virtual book club selection is the blessing of a skinned knee by wendy mogel last summer, one of the moms from my sons basketball team told me about wendy mogels the blessing of a skinned knee. In the trenches of a typical day, every parent encounters a child afflicted with ingratitude and entitlement. With warmth and humor, mogel distills the wisdom of the torah, the talmud, and important jewish teachings, as well as contemporary psychological insights, into nine blessings that address key parenting issues including. The blessing of a skinned knee book by wendy mogel. The blessing of a skinned knee kobo ebook the book stall. In bless this mess, readers will gain practical tools as they learn how to talk to their children about money, god, ethics, bullying, disabilities, sexuality, and their bodies. Using jewish teachings to raise selfreliant children is a must read for any jewish parent. The result is her book, blessings of a skinned knee, and a new career teaching preventative parenting in schools, churches and synagogues rather than treating single families on the proverbial couch. Discussion questions the blessing of a skinned knee.
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Digging into the rich traditions of the torah, the talmud and other jewish teachings, mogel builds a parenting blueprint that draws on core spiritual values. It offers a both a fresh perspective and a return to some ageold thought. The blessing of a skinned knee points the way to raising selfreliant. The blessing of a skinned knee book marinet bibliocommons. From practical suggestions to insights that will reconnect you with the essential role of parents, wendy mogels book is an outstanding read. Aug 28, 2008 but i just finished reading a wonderful book called, the blessing of a skinned knee. Although her book, blessings of a skinned knee, links lessons in parenting to judaism, parents of all faiths will find useful wisdom in mogels highly regarded volume. This online guide was developed to help parents who would like to participate in a parenting class using the concepts in the blessing of. Using jewish teachings to raise selfreliant children published by charles scribners sons in 2001. If you want to hear a little happier episode where i talk about one of the most important lessons i gleaned from that book, its here. Aug 22, 2001 a unique parenting book, designed for use both in the home and in parenting classes, with an online teaching guide to help facilitate its use, the blessing of a skinned knee is both inspiring and effective in the daytoday challenge of raising selfreliant children. Her revelatory second release, the blessing of a b minus, addresses the challenge. A unique parenting book, the blessing of a skinned knee is both inspiring and effective in the daytoday challenge of raising selfreliant, compassionate, ethical children. Mar 25, 2020 a skinned knee, that all too common childhood phenomenon, is a natural consequence of combining concrete and gravity.
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