Purim is coming soon and that means planning costumes, seudah menus, and getting supplies for your mishloach manot. To me, it seems that now-a-days mishloach manot are wrapped in so many layers of plastic and packed with so much junk and packaging. Many people seem to be throwing away the majority of the mishloach rather…
My son recently celebrated his bar mitzvah. It could have been a very stressful time, but I made a point of not letting it get to me. When things were not going quite the way I envisioned, I kept repeating to myself – “I refuse to get upset about a happy occasion.” This allowed me…
Children are notorious for being messy. They drop things on the floor, dump out their toys and never seem to put things away – no matter how many times you ask them. I received a question the other day about how one should go about teaching kids to be tidy. It’s a great question! To…