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Some New Year’s ruminations ...
I was told by some of our Neufeld Institute staff that our newsletter subscribers might appreciate hearing from me at the start of this new year. I usually turtle during the winter holidays, retreating to my family and my reading and generally closing...

My sons were often the only Jewish children in their classes, given that Portland, Oregon has a relatively small Jewish population. Like parents in minority groups all over, my husband and I took on the role of coming into our boys’ classrooms every...

What do anxiety, attention problems, bullying, and adrenaline-seeking all have in common? Although these stories all seem to be coming from a different place, there is a shared thread between them … stay with me.…
The cyber-bully dynamic
My first assignment as a school counsellor, almost 20 years ago now, was an incident of cyber-bullying. It was the first time something like this had happened at this small private school and they were understandably alarmed. That is, the teachers and...

A very long time ago it seems, I gave a talk called Cultivating Caring Children. I loved that material. More recently I had the opportunity to keynote on empathy. Oh my goodness, I was taken by surprise by the rant that was in me. I decided at that time...