There is a small maroon softcover siddur that I keep in my tallis bag and which I use every day.  I bought the siddur from a seforim store b...

As many of you know, I have three children -- Walter, George and Wilma. Walter is finishing up his junior year in high school and will be st...

Eeees and I have an 8th grader, who, for blogging purposes, is named George. As you can imagine, we've been looking at various high sch...

Eeees and I are now in the process of looking for high schools for our two children (a boy and a girl) who are graduating elementary school ...

Rabbi Horowitz's column in this week's Jewish Press* addresses a problem that many parents of teens have -- balancing the want (and...

Dear Rabbi Ploni, My son George came home from camp very upset today. Specifically, he was upset about something that he heard during yo...

Walter didn't have bus service to school this morning, so he and I traveled on the train together this morning - him to school and me to...

Rabbi Horowitz (who has been recently appointed at the "Bloggers' favorite rabbi") wrote a new article concerning teenagers. ...

Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum wrote an article which appeared in The Yeshiva World today . In it, he decries how it has become standard operating pr...

Dear Walter, Mazel Tov and congratulations on your graduation from elementary school. Your mother and I are very proud of the accomplishmen...

I have the good fortune to have a younger sister, whom I will refer to in this post as Skipper.* Skipper is about three years younger than ...

Some recent events have forced Eeees and I to have a talk with Walter, our oldest, about birds, bees and other similar topics. He is approa...

Rabbi Horowitz had an article last week (OK, so I'm somewhat slow...) about kids who are average learners (even if they are excellent i...

This weekend, I made a trip up to YU for the annual SOY Seforim sale. One of the books that I picked up is Off the Derech by Faranak Margo...

As you no doubt know from my previous posts, Eeees and I have been looking for a high school for our eighth grader. We've seen several ...

... when we wish we seriously reconsider sending him away to high school. Ah, the "joys" of adolescence. :) The Wolf

Eeees and I have spent the last two weeks looking at various high schools. Our oldest is now in eighth grade and will be attending high scho...

Last night was the Bar Mitzvah Se'udah of my oldest son. It was (if I may say so) a nice affair - the music was good, the number of peo...