Melissa Work told her six-year-old son Blake to clean up his room. Blake wasn’t happy and told his mother that there were way too many toys to pick up. “Toys are your blessings,” his mother said, explaining that that there are many kids who don’t have any toys at all. Blake felt badly for these…
Category: Slovie Jungreis-Wolff
Think Love: 8 Tips To Rekindle Love
A young woman told me that she had fallen out of love with her husband. She explained that while there was nothing negative in her marriage, there was nothing positive either. They were co-parenting but not feeling the romance that had once existed. They tried couples therapy, but she decided it was time to tell…
The Five Best Chanukkah Gifts to Give to Your Children
This is the time of year that we shower children with gifts. This year, let’s take a few moments to focus on the greatest gifts money cannot buy. 1. Time Children crave time together with loved ones. They’re hungry for positive attention. Kids seek some type of affirmation of love, of our pleasure when we…
Keeping a Marriage Strong
We are hardly shocked when we hear about long term relationships breaking up. Whether celebrities or neighbors down the block, divorce has become way too common. At the start of a relationship, there is intense emotion. If you scan the brain of someone in this early passionate stage of love you will find that…
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s Divorce
Social media has gone wild with the breakup of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Headlines scream out “The Planet Is Shocked”; “Fans Mourn Brad and Angelina’s split”; “Cheer on Jennifer Aniston.” The divorce of Hollywood’s golden couple has caused a tsunami of gossipy speculation, catching more than the usual attention by Twitter and Facebook…
Missing My Mother, Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis
To the world she was a survivor and trailblazing visionary. To me and my siblings she was our mother who was always there for us. by Slovie JungreisWolff These are most difficult words for me to write. Today I got up from sitting shiva for my beloved mother, Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis. For seven days…
Family Bonding
The three most important traits every family needs. As summer winds down we are given the opportunity to take stock of what matters most. Are there daily choices we can make that would make a difference in our homes this year? Can we implement behaviors and attitudes that help our family grow stronger? When a…
Where Do the Jewish People Get the Strength to Go On?
We have been scattered throughout the four corners of this earth, many have pronounced us as dead and yet here we are. I cannot watch, but I dare not turn away either. Orit Mark, a young girl cries out. Her father, Michael (Miki) was shot as he drove his wife and two of his 10…
Creating Security for Children in a Scary World
How to make a pocket of peace for our families and ourselves. My daughter, Shaindy, traveled to America last week to visit with my mother. Upon returning to her home in Israel, Shaindy was greeted with a Welcome Home sign pasted onto her front door. Her six-year-old daughter had colored a picture of an El-Al…
Why I Can’t Marry You
What are real deal breakers in a relationship? What’s the greatest deal breaker when it comes to seeking a partner? According to the Wall Street Journal, the biggest turn off for both women and men was “disheveled or unclean” followed closely by “lazy” and “too needy.” A recent series of studies cited in the WSJ…