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Q: On the topic of adult children, I find it quite interesting to observe a different aspect of sibling rivalry. When two sets of married children visit at the same…
Q: The letter you published about a boy’s upcoming bar mitzvah touched a chord in me. One of my daughters is getting married soon, and whom to invite presents a…
Q: As an aunt, I find myself in a situation where I want to help my nephew navigate his upcoming bar mitzvah. His parents went through a very difficult divorce…
Q: My husband has anger issues, and these have been having more of an effect on my children in recent weeks. It’s hard to know why he has been acting…
Q: My 14-year-old daughter went to sleepaway camp last summer with a close friend from her class. This friend was not very loyal in camp. She began to make new…
Q: Our 11-year-old son wants to go to sleepaway camp this summer. I am from Israel, my husband of 14 years is American, and we have different opinions on this…
Q: Unfortunately, my mother has not been well in recent months. She now lives in a nursing facility, as she has dementia and can no longer be maintained at home.…
Q: Baruch Hashem, we have been blessed with a house with many-aged children, and sometimes, the “many opinions” of my children can be overwhelming. If your office was closer, I…
Q: As Pesach is over, I am looking back at the positive and negative times that my husband and I experienced over Yom Tov. All in all, I came away…
Q: I feel that my children could be doing more to help around the house. Not only are they not participating, but they expect that everything will continue as usual,…
Q: We have three sons, ages 10, 8 and 4. The eldest, Shloimy,* often has an “attitude problem” and becomes angered quite easily. His relationship with my husband is not…
Q: My nine-year-old son has been diagnosed as “being on the spectrum” of PDD (pervasive developmental disorder), possibly exhibiting behavior of Asperger’s syndrome. When researching Asperger’s, I found mention of…
Q: Our 16-year-old daughter has been exhibiting troublesome behavior in recent weeks, and my husband and I don’t know how to respond. She shows a lack of interest in schoolwork…
Q: My husband passed away three years ago, leaving me to raise our nine-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter. I find the job of parenting overwhelming, as the children are very…
Q: I have a family of seven children, bli ayin hara, the oldest being my 14-year-old daughter. She is what every mother would want — smart, helpful, tzniusdig, with very…
Q: My husband tends to be stricter with our children than I am. He comes from a more formal home and believes that much of what he has accomplished in…
Q: My oldest daughter (of several, bli ayin hara,) is 12, and is followed by a 9-1/2-year-old girl. My second daughter greatly desires the company of her older sister, who…
Q: I have a family of seven children, bli ayin hara, and devote a lot of time to their individual needs. My 16-year-old daughter is quite shy and is feeling…
Q: My 10-year-old son has an anger-management problem that we’ve been working on for the past year and a half with a therapist. We have seen major improvement, but recently…
Q: My husband and I have four children, bli ayin hara; the oldest two are girls, ages 13 and 15, followed by a boy, 9, and a 2-year-old girl. The…
