Building and Strengthening
Healthy Family Relationships

Positive Jewish Parenting
Enhancing the Quality of Marriage

Three unique interactive series on parenting and marriage are available for synagogues and schools.

Strengthen practical parenting/ relationship skills with useful advice, ideas, suggestions, and pointers, from leading mental health professionals in the field. Topics listed may be integrated within the three series.

Series I - The Early Aspects of Marriage
For Engaged, Chatan/Kallah Classes, Newlyweds, and Those in the First Years of Marriage

• Self Esteem and its Impact upon Marriage

• Effective Listening & Communication Skills

• Roles and Expectations 

• Balancing Work, Finances, and Family

• Recognition and Meeting Needs: His, Hers, Ours 

• Individuality and Competition

• Changing Relationships: Spouse, Parents, In-laws, Friends, Children

• The Impact of Children on Marriage 

• Constructive Conflict Resolution

Series II - Establishing Growth In Marriage
For Those Married Three or More Years

• Strengthening Effective and Loving Communication Skills

• Expressing Feelings in a Positive Manner

• Understanding Feelings, Expressed and Suppressed

• Diplomacy in Expression

• Conflict Recognition and Resolution

• Creating Time to Talk And Share

• Criticism and Blame

• Areas of Trust, Honesty, And Privacy

• Intimacy in Marriage

• Tension and Stress Reduction

• Positive Jewish Parenting

Series III - Positive Jewish Parenting
Child Rearing and Family Ties

• Raising Children in a Secular Society

• Mixed Messages Given to Children by Parents

• Television, the Internet, And Computer Games

• Peer Pressure 

• Parents' Role in Homework And Education

• Disciplining Your Children: Working as a Team

• Single Parenting 

• The Teenage Years

• Preparing for Marriage

A program of the Department of Synagogue Services planned with the involvement, support and encouragement of The Rabbinical Council of America (RCA). For further information on a program in your synagogue and community, please call Frank Buchweitz, Director of Special Projects at 212-613-8188.

Organized in cooperation with the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, Inc./ Jewish Connections in the greater New York area.