Today’s guest is Tammy Keeces, Head of School at Irvine Hebrew Day School, a former teacher, a positive discipline trainer and mama to three teenagers. She has a Bachelor of Psychology from UCLA, a Masters from Columbia University’s Teacher College in Curriculum and Instruction. She’s currently working on her doctorate. We will be discussing responding to tragic events like the Tree of Life Synagogue tragedy, as well as Judaism, positive discipline and how we can all support each other better. Join us!
"None of us should feel alone.”
“People are children and they just want to belong.”
“God gives us many opportunities for goodness and kindness and this is another way for us to remind ourselves that we need to have hope and we need to have love.”
“We have to come together now, more than ever.”
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- How Irvine Hebrew Day School handled the tragedy in Pittsburgh
- Developmental appropriate levels of information about tragic events
- Balancing the feelings of parents and children in the wake of tragedy
- Meeting hate with love - finding inner resources in the face of fear
- Ways to encourage our kids to accept others
- The freeing power of compassion
- Parallels between the Torah and positive discipline
- How non-Jewish people can support the Jewish community
- Teaching our kids about leadership and civic responsibility
What does Joyful Courage mean to you?
It’s being brave every day, to make the right decisions for ourselves and those that love us and inviting joy despite the challenges, despite the heartache, we have to choose joy and that’s what you’re doing every day with joyful courage and I think that there’s no other way to live our lives at this point.
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