Elisheva Liss Sep 9 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 snacks...
Elisheva Liss Aug 19 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 themselve...
Elisheva Liss Jun 21 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 t...
Elisheva Liss Apr 21 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 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 biolo...
Elisheva Liss Mar 22 3 min How to Run Family Meetings So we find ourselves suddenly spending more time at home with our families than we ever have before. Trying to juggle parenting, schoolin...
Elisheva Liss Feb 3 3 min Totally Grossed Out By Private Parts Please Note: This post contains explicit content, is for mature readers only, and may be triggering for survivors of trauma. Fay and her ...
Elisheva Liss Dec 5, 2019 4 min Why It's Important to Teach Kids Accurate Names of Body Parts Tzivi came home from preschool and told her mom that her Morah had gotten upset at her that day. “Morah said I used a bad word. But I did...
Elisheva Liss Aug 29, 2019 3 min Hey Teachers Your Students Have Issues A teacher in my neighborhood once called me to talk about some frustrating feedback she had gotten at work. Apparently, a parent had call...
Elisheva Liss Jun 20, 2019 2 min More Attempts To Reduce Abuse This Summer As we label the socks and pack up the duffels, we scan the emails about the “pre-camp safety talks” and try to arm our kids with a specif...
