Parenting The Soul of Your Child by Rabbi Mordecai Finley
Parenting the Soul of Your Child begins with wisdom: guiding a child toward becoming safe, healthy, insightful, moral, respectful, and capable of thinking well.
Rather than relying primarily on reward, punishment, and behavioral control, this course teaches parents how to use the ordinary struggles of family life — discipline, chores, school performance, sibling conflict, procrastination, defiance, and poor choices — as opportunities for growth, reasoning, and insight.
The guiding principle of Parenting with Wisdom is simple: aim more for insight, less for compliance. The gift of insight is a gift for a lifetime.
As parents move beyond behavioral management, they can begin to nurture the deeper inner life of the child — the soul — helping guide children toward maturity, depth, and human flourishing.
Course•By Rabbi Mordecai Finley