Close to 250 parents of school-age children filled the Associated Talmud Torahs on Saturday night, Dec. 5 to attend the 29th Annual Rabbi Isaac Mayefsky Memorial Lecture.

Sponsored by the Associated Talmud Torahs, this annual parenting program featured the noted educator and international lecturer Rabbi Hanoch Teller.

The presentation, entitled “Honorable Mentschen: The Target of Teaching; The Goal of Parenting,” focused on strategies for effecting parenting. Rabbi Teller presented the importance planning in parenting and cited the following strategies to create self-disciplined children:

Being a proper role model for your child; the importance of character development from a young age and instilling proper manners; specific examples of how to treat and be considerate of others; how to maintain cell phone and driving decorum; how to be careful of another person’s privacy; the importance of doing good things; and making proper decisions, i.e. value the significance of every act, consider what one’s true motivation is when confronted with decision making, have the goal of striving to create ” kavod shomayim ” (respect) and consider what one’s actions might ultimately cause.

Rabbi Isaac Mayefsky was a gifted educator who, in the course of more than 40 years of communal service, developed many key programs within the Associated Talmud Torahs, including the Russian Transitional Program and the Oscar & Bernice Novick P’TACH Learning Disabled Program.

This lecture was part of the ATT’s expanded program designed to address the challenges of creative teaching and rewarding parenting. Over the years, it has become an excellent resource for parents of children of all ages.