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Parenting Day-to-Day

Being a parent provides endless opportunities for gratitude. We are privileged to witness life unfolding. We have opportunities to see the extraordinary in the ordinary each and every day. Even when it is messy, tedious or frustrating, parenting hasthe power toconnects us with something larger than ourselves.

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A New Shema

Shared by Alexander Massey | Poem

A liturgical poem based on the first two lines of the Shema [more]

Found In: Evening Service, Friday Evening, Morning Service, Saturday, Parenting Day-to-Day

Tags: shema

Going to the Doctor for Shots

Atsiylah Garfinkel | Complete Ceremony

This ritual is intended to help kids to have a focal point firmly grounded in their faith on the day of their visit to the doctor. [more]

Found In: Parenting Day-to-Day, Healing from Illness

Tags: Debbie Friedman, mi sheberakh, tzedakah

Prayer for Safe Sleep

Shared by Aurora Mendelsohn | Prayer

A bedtime prayer asking that we lie down and rise up in peace [more]

Found In: Evening Service, Parenting Day-to-Day

Tags: bedtime, hashkivenu

Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman

By Anne Sexton | Poem

A beautiful poem about a daughter's coming of age [more]

Found In: Bar / Bat Mitzvah, Parenting Day-to-Day

Family Meetings

By Rabbi Rona Shapiro | Article

Describes how various families use family meetings for connection, problem-solving, and planning [more]

Found In: Parenting Day-to-Day

Tags: Rabbi Rona Shapiro

A Parent's Prayer for Patience

By Rabbi Naomi Levy | Prayer

A prayer to be said when a parent feels tried by the job of parenting [more]

Found In: Yom Kippur, Parenting Day-to-Day

Tags: Rabbi Naomi Levy

A prayer when children play sports

By Ken Bresler | Prayer

I wrote this blessing for when my daughter plays sports on Shabbat instead of going to shul, though parents may say it on any day of the week. [more]

Found In: Parenting Day-to-Day

Placenta and Tree Planting

By Yonit Lea Kosovske | Complete Ceremony

This ceremony marks a child's first birthday with the planting of the placenta which nourished the child in utero. [more]

Found In: Childhood Milestones, Parenting Day-to-Day

Tags: birthdays, placenta

Everything Possible

Lyrics and music by Fred Small | Song

A beautiful song, a lullaby, about fully accepting our children and offering them complete freedom to become themselves. [more]

Found In: Bar / Bat Mitzvah, Welcoming & Raising Children, Leaving Home, Parenting Day-to-Day, Graduation, Gender & Sexual Identity

A Weaning Ceremony

Anonymous | Complete Ceremony

A ceremony to celebrate the weaning of a child [more]

Found In: Breastfeeding & Weaning, Parenting Day-to-Day

Tags: weaning