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By Leah Persky, PhD & Certified Family Life Educator • Family Life Education Manager As I look back to March, at the beginning of the pandemic, it really hits me just how many challenging and different kinds of decisions parents and families have had to make over the past six months. When[...]Posted 2 months ago
By Leah Persky, PhD & Certified Family Life Educator • Family Life Education Manager What are parents dealing with lately? Well, a lot! They are agonizing over questions of safety; childcare; figuring out how best to engage in physical distancing this summer; thinking about how we can educ[...]Posted 3 months ago
By Leah Persky, PhD, CFLE-P • Family Life Education Manager So much has happened in the past month and so many of us are grappling with what we can do to fight the systematic injustices and racism that pervade our country today. Jewish people are no stranger to prejudice, discrimination and be[...]Posted 5 months ago
By Leah Persky, PhD • JFCS Family Life Education Manager It is next to impossible to plan much of anything when we are living in such uncertain times. Every day things change and we are forced to re-assess and practice going with the flow. What else can you do when you are living through a pan[...]Posted 5 months ago
You have heard it before – we are living through unprecedented times. This may be one of the most challenging, important and memorable times of our lives. Parents have been thrown into the role of teacher, cook, cleaner, working-from-home professional, procurer of supplies, and so much [...]Posted 5 months ago
Ideas to help keep families mentally and physically healthy By Leah Persky • Family Life Education Manager The other day I was trying to help my daughter make some progress on her Rubik’s Cube and we were stuck. We felt like we tried it all, and then we got a little corner of gre[...]Posted 6 months ago
By Leah Persky • Family Life Education Manager I, like most parents I know, never thought I would homeschool my children. Don’t get me wrong – I love my children and I love learning, but I never thought I would be particularly well-suited to teach them in a school-like setting; and I am an[...]Posted 9 months ago
Tips for getting the most joy out the holiday season By Leah Persky • Family Life Education Manager So many of us begin planning for and thinking about the busy winter holiday season many months before it officially begins. We see the holiday decorations up in stores beginning the day after[...]Posted 11 months ago
By Leah Persky • Family Life Education Manager On Nov. 13 World Kindness Day is celebrated around the world. Kindness can be practiced year-round; we can all do our part to make someone else’s day, or use this as an excuse to be kind to ourselves! While you probably have lots of id[...]Posted 12 months ago
By Leah Persky • Family Life Education Manager It is becoming increasingly hard to tune out the political news of the day, which over the past few weeks, has reached an intensity that is hard to ignore. Between the presidential visit and accompanying protests in Minneapolis earlier this month and[...]