The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using 0142196002
| The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children |
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A clinical psychologist and Jewish educator use the Torah and other Jewish texts to offer psychological and practical insights into parenting and sharing practical advice on how to develop realistic expectations for each child, teach respect for adults, deal with frustration, enhance independence, and more. Reprint. |
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The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children Specs:
| Product Name | The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children |
| Manufacturer | Penguin USA |
| Product Number MPN | 0142196002 |
| Retail Price | $14.00 |
| EAN-14 | 09780142196007 |
| UPC | 978014219600 |
| Specifications | |
| Title | The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children |
| ISBN | 0142196002 |
| Author(s) | Wendy Mogel |
| Release Date | 2001-10-30 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Num. of Items | 1 |
| Weight | 0.5 lbs. |
| Deal first added on: | 19-February-2004 |
Latest 6 Reviews
Here is what people are saying about the The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
 "Very good book!" | 2009-10-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: A22L0320IG19Z0 |
| The book helps for jewish and non-jewish parents alike to understand themselves and their parenting attitudes better, and achieve a more harmonious household, being spiritually connected family without being overly religious. |
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| "A must read for parents of all religions" | 2009-07-26 |
| - Reviewed By User: AS905ZX9L4ZGO |
| This book is a must for parents of all religions. I have read it again and again each year of parenting to help me take the right path with my three kids. |
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 "Very Jewish, but interesting" | 2009-06-23 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1K13AEYKHYY6O |
| This is an interesting view of application of Jewish principles to parenthood. I'm Lutheran, and unschooled in Jewish theory, but still find the lessons applicable to my own belief system and principles. Besides helping to give interesting perspectives on child rearing, it also gave me a different view of Old Testiment readings. I really liked this book a lot. My child is challenging, and this is giving me perspective and some new ideas. It is packed with good stuff. |
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| "awesome book" | 2009-06-22 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2O4FITP2DQDTS |
i'm not jewish, but i was recommended to read this by a jewish friend. i am so glad she did. it hadn't fallen on my radar (because i am non-religious and had preconceived notion that this would be far too religious for my liking) but this is one of the best parenting book i've read. this is a parenting book i consider rereading and keeping on my bookshelf. it is insightful, fundamentally sound and comforting all at the same time. take the parts that apply to you best in your existing situation.
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| "Wonderful Read" | 2009-04-12 |
| - Reviewed By User: AZ92O1PWKAM7Q |
This writer is quite insightful and I know alot of parents who read and really got what this writer was trying to get across to her readers. |
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| "The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children." | 2008-12-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A4WRIPUIRBX84 |
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children. Wendy Mogel, 2001, 304 pages.
When our Cadets came back from The Leader Development and Assessment Course a few of them complained that the hardest part of the course was being "bubble wrapped". This "bubble wrapping" created a risk adverse mentality and did not promote resiliency. Bubble wrapping a child is the underlying sub-text of the book, "The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children". The author is not a proponent of physical, spiritual, or emotional "bubble wrapping". Not that the author advocates a completely hands off "Lord of the Flies" type of parenting style. Rather the author advocates providing the structure for children to grow and learn acknowledging that there will be falls, bruises, and spills. The goal of a parent in her vision is to teach resiliency so that the child has experience in choices, consequences, success, and limitations by the time they leave the parental nest and venture out on their own. The end state goal is a self-reliant, resilient adult.
This book like most good parenting tomes is not a specific matrix to follow or an iron clad situational cause and effect program. A book of that type would be antagonistic to the over all concept of this book. Too often I have noticed that parents pick up these type of books looking for a quick fix or silver bullet to solve a parenting issue that the are having. People get caught up in the exact how and bypass the why and what. This book is about providing a guiding structure or underpinning guidance.
To that end the book is a valuable tool and I can recommend it. The Jewishness of the text is not an obstacle unless the reader chooses to make it an obstacle. Much of the Jewsihness is encapsulated in two methods. The first is the use of pithy but relevant quotes and observations from the Talmud. The bulk of these observations are non-religious and merely life observations. The second encapsulated method is the advocacy of Friday night Shabbat diner. If the reader understand the why and the what than it becomes merely a ritualized family diner and time. The ritual is in the parameters and not in the faith process.
I have seen and listened to many parents who `bubble wrap" their children. Most often this protective padding is related not to physical aspects but to emotional or freedom aspects. When you routinely make your child's choices for them they do not learn how to make their own choices. What you create is a fragile clone of yourself which is liable to snap and shatter because it is not a real self-owned person.
Parenting like mentoring is hard work. The easy route of authoritarianism or doing it your self is a decided betrayal of faith and a disregard for the uniqueness of each person. As a parent you will make mistakes, each mistake is a teaching opportunity in resiliency and repentance. In these moments we teach truer and more important lessons than when we are lecturing about basic math or morality. The question comes down to the notion of dictator or director. The dictator will inevitably face rebellion. The director provides the guidance and direction but leaves the how and the task to the directed. In other words do you teach your child what to think or how? |
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