Parents and teachers are tasked with the obligation and privilege to inspire our children and students until their flames burn independently.

Real growth takes time, both in trees and people.

This is an amazing idea that will change the way you see your children. You will become aware of many moments of inner strength they exhibit each day!

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Offering an invitation to depend, is the surest route to independence. Hashem doesn't send any of us alone on our life's missions, He is there alongside. We can do the same for our children. Please visit the Conversation page on www.torasimecha.com to read a beautiful quote on this topic.

Why do we celebrate trees in the heart of winter? Why is Rosh Chodesh the day with the weakest moon? The Jewish attitude to growth focuses on the process of change, and everyone can participate.

Times change and effective parents need to adapt to their children's world, just as Hashem did in this Parshah.

One of my favorite medrashim that teaches us that Hashem created parents to be the ones their children respond to better than anyone else.

Two prominent women, leaders of their generation, are introduced to us with pseudonyms, Shifra and Puah. Here is a profound lesson we can learn from them.

Why does the book of our nationhood focus so much on families? This is a foundational idea of great importance to all of us, individually and collectively.