Elisheva Liss 4 days ago 7 min My Teen Discovered Pornography- What Should I Do?? This originally appeared as a column in the Five Towns Jewish Times: Dear Elisheva, I honestly never thought I would be writing a letter...
Elisheva Liss Sep 5 4 min B'sha'ah Tova Faux Pas Adina’s eyes darted around my office, then closed and watered with unsuccessfully repressed shame. She was trying to explain the freshly...
Elisheva Liss Aug 15 3 min Hey, Teachers- Your Students Have Issues A local teacher once called me to talk about some frustrating feedback she had gotten at work. Apparently, a parent had called the...
Elisheva Liss Jun 4 4 min Fighting about Whether to Have a Baby How do you decide when to start a family? How many kids to have? When to stop having kids? Even if we knew exactly how many kids we hoped...
Elisheva Liss Mar 14 3 min "I Was Molested by my Brother but neither of us Knew It." Trigger Warning: This post contains sensitive content about child sexual abuse. *Like all vignettes featured in this blog, it reflects...
Elisheva Liss Sep 9, 2020 3 min Coping with Back to School Season Overwhelm It’s September, and children everywhere are yanking out their uniforms, knapsacks, paperwork, and supplies, packing up lunches and...
Elisheva Liss Aug 19, 2020 2 min Thinking about Homeschooling in the 11th Hour? Hey, parents! How are you holding up?? With schools scrambling to formulate and convey their plans to reopen, many parents find...
Elisheva Liss Jun 21, 2020 2 min No Camp? What Are We Supposed to Do?? Are you one of the many parents who thought they were finally going to get a much-needed break from 24/7 parenting by sending your kids...
Elisheva Liss Apr 21, 2020 3 min This Is Not Homeschooling Parents keep commenting to me: “Wow- this is so hard! I don’t know how you do this all the time.” And I answer: “We don’t. We homeschool....
Elisheva Liss Mar 23, 2020 1 min What to Teach Kids Right Now (And Always) What if we covered a little less math, and instead teach kids what really counts. Less social studies, and more social skills. Less...
