Taking a parenting course now??

Tel Tzion Ima

Wed, Dec 02 2015, 3:00 am

If you're in Jerusalem or surrounding area, Rebbetzin Sima Spetner's class is amazing.

She's very experiences, over 30 years in chinuch. She has a solid education in psychology, and more importantly, everything she teaches is rooted in Torah.

What I really don't like, and personally would avoid when choosing a teacher, is one who has a very specific one way of doing things one-size-fits-all attitude. Great it worked for her raising her kids, but everyone is so different, and then when her formula doesn't work for me, then what? I've been to a few psychologists or social workers for parenting who were so reciting from a text book to me. I felt like asking them if they even had kids or were they just going with what their books said bcse if it's in a book then it must be right.

From day 1, Reb. Spetner acknowledges that all mothers are different, all kids are different, each parent/child relationship is different. She teaches tools/gives you knowledge that each mother can apply for herself and for kids. It's about looking at the big picture of raising kids, the long term goals. When we're in the day-to-day small stuff that we all deal with, where does it fit into the bigger picture.

I think I've heard similar things about Dini Friedman's teleconference course, which of course, you can take from anywhere.