Personal Privacy or Secret Keeping?
By Susan Kurlander, M.Ed.
How can we help our children distinguish between privacy and secret-keeping? Let’s start with these 8 tips!
June 8, 2022
Tag: children
“It’s Not My Fault…”
By Susan Kurlander, M.Ed.
How do we encourage accountability in our children? Here are 11 suggestions from JCS Health Educator and “Roots and Wings” series author.
May 10, 2022
Sibling Rivalry: Friend or Foe
By Susan Kurlander, M.Ed.
For anyone who has more than one child, sibling rivalry can be challenging and seemingly ever present. Parents can make the situation more manageable by trying the following.
April 13, 2022
Are We Overscheduling Our Children?
By Jacki Post Ashkin, LCSW-C
What happened to the joy of just being a kid? Consider these 6 tips as you balance your children’s extracurriculars.
March 29, 2022
Roots and Wings: Navigating Peer Pressure
By Susan Kurlander, M.Ed.
Parents can help their children, at a young age, identify and respond to peer pressure in ways that are supportive rather than detrimental to their growth. Here are some suggestions.
February 17, 2022
Syvonne’s “Beneficial Life-Altering Experience:” A Big Sister, Little Sister Journey
Interview conducted by Emma Silber
Syvonne Collins, a former Little Sister in the JCS Big Brother, Big Sister Program recounts the close bond that was formed with her Big Sister, Debbie Levy over the years.
January 19, 2022
Raising a Mensch: It’s Worth the Effort
By Susan Kurlander, M.Ed.
As part of our “Roots and Wings: Raising Resilient Children” series, here are 7 suggestions for raising a child with mensch-like qualities.
December 23, 2021
Roots and Wings: Talking About Current Events with Your Kids
By Susan Kurlander, M.Ed.
How can parents appropriately expose their children of any age to the news occurring around them? Here are some suggestions.
October 15, 2021
Roots and Wings: Helping Our Kids Through School-Based Anxiety
By Susan Kurlander, M.Ed.
As a result of many months (even a whole year) outside the physical classroom, many children may be anxious about what their “new normal” will look like.
August 16, 2021
Let’s Talk About Money – With Kids
By Benjamin Temin
How can we help our children to understand and value money?
May 24, 2021