This Week

JARC's Young Adult Committee
and Harris Children & Family
Division Advisory Council
proudly present

For Openers

The Second Annual

OCIPApe

Guide To Good Parenting

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haraoh may have been a tyrant, but what kind
of parent was he?
A new program asks parents to consider
this and other questions. It's part of an
attempt to incorporate Jewish values into parenting
skills.
Looking to create a parenting skills class based on an
already developed model, "we were surprised there was
nothing established using Jewish values," said Marci
Mayer-Eisen, coordinator of the pilot program at the St.
Louis Jewish Community Center.
Research led her to Active Parenting Publishers. It
already had printed a Christian supplement to its Active
Parenting Today program, which is devoted to helping
parents.
The company agreed to meet Jewish needs with the
creation of a Jewish parenting program called Active
Parenting Today for Jewish Families. It is expected to be
available nationwide this month.
The parenting program (its Web site is
vvvvw.activeparenting.com ) consists of videos shown at six,
two-hour sessions for parents, followed by discussion. The
parents use methods learned in class with their children,
then report back on the results at subsequent meetings.
Program leaders can engage in one-day, leader-train-
ing workshops from the company.
In the Jewish workshop, leaders present models of
parenting based on people from the Torah. Pharaoh, for
instance, is presented as an example of a "strict auto-
crat." Moses' brother, Aaron, is held up as a "permissive
leader," because he did not stop the Hebrews from
building a golden calf in the desert. Moses is offered as
an example of the "democratic parent."
Laurie Katzman, who participated in the St. Louis
pilot sessions, said she had a "laid-back" parenting style
before she took the workshop.
"I lacked the discipline I needed to dish out, and I
learned how to distribute that to the children," she said.
Can the thousands of years of Jewish parenting give
•us inspiration today? Said Mayer-Eisen: "When parent-
ing becomes stressful and overwhelming, parents can
remind themselves that everyone, even their child, was
created in God's image." ❑

— Brian Seidman, Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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Yiddish Limericks

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notables

"He was a very brave man. He was a fine gentleman, a fine
human being. He knew the art of being king and of being a
mentsh."
— Professor Shmuel Penchas, former director generate Hadassah
Medical Organization, and a friend of the late King Hussein of
_ Jordan, speaking of him at Hadassahs convention in Los Angeles.

"You're darn right it's not true."
— Hillary Rodham Clinton, denying an allegation in the new
book, "State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill
and Hillary. Clinton," that the first lady called a Jewish campaign
leader a "Jew b
" the evening President Clinton lost a
congressional bid in Arkansas in 1974.

"The church has tried everything to improve relations with
the Jews. But they don't forgive us the slightest thing."
— The Vatican's Monsignor Carlos Liberati, on Jewish opposition
to the scheduled beatification of Pius 1X, the 19th century pope
who abducted a 6-year-old from his Jewish parents and raised
him as a Catholic and stripped Jews of their civil rights.

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beginning of the Hebrews' 40 years of wandering, World
War I and what other two better-known Jewish historical events?

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