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Self-Care for Foster Parents

By Creating a Family Staff

Parenting foster children who have come to your home from trauma, neglect or abuse is likely the hardest work you will ever do. It requires you to have a wide variety of tools in your parenting toolbox. Self-care for foster parents is one of the most important tools you can have in that toolbox.

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What Moms Get in Return: The Unexpected Enlightenment of Parenting While Female

What if our own crucible of self-sacrifice can teach us more about enlightenment than male mystics ever could?

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Danya Ruttenberg
2016
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The Latest Parenting Trend–Radical Amazement

The 20th-century rabbi and theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel writes often about “radical amazement,” that sense of “wow” about the world, as the root of spirituality.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
2013
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Parenting as a Spiritual Practice

There is enough room in our spiritual expressions not only for all of the love we feel for our families, but also for the hectic, distracted chaos that so often defines parenting small children — if we are willing to expand our understanding of what religious expression is, and can be.

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Danya Ruttenberg
2013
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