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How Can We Get Our Kids to Want to Daven?

Trying to make Tefilla interesting and inspiring to children is a challenge all mosdos chinuch face, most often leading to frustration. A chinuch day opens with Tefilla because it is essential that a child learns that that Tefilla is the way a Jewish day begins.

Mechanchim and mechanchos struggle to make the Tefilla/davening process, one which does it justice and teaches a child how to properly daven and it is almost always an uphill battle. New research tell us that doesn’t have to be that way.

Both Chinuch Kinusim will deal with the issue of Tefilla in a fundamentally new way. It will look at the prerequisites to a proper, inspirational davening experience and how to help a child and growing student actually appreciate and enjoy it. The presentations and workshops are the unique product of the of a team of mechanchim working with the Chinuch Office and Tzivos HaShem

The first premise, that creating an environment conducive to Tefilla is an absolute prerequisite, will be presented by Rabbi Moshe B. Perlstein, menahel of Lubavitch Mesivta of Chicago IL. Research on what makes the davening process itself both learning and a meaningful experience has yielded a number of interesting results which have been translated to ideas. These will be presented during the forthcoming Kinusim.

In addition Tzivos HaShem will unveil a new Tefilla initiative, including a new student siddur and is partnering with the Merkos Chinuch Office to create an incentive program for talmidim and talmidos.

Mechanchim from across the country will be coming to the Kinus HaMechanchim, to be held this year at the Dolce, in Norwalk, CT will take place Sunday and Monday, Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, July 3rd and 4th. For further information and to register, visit www.Chinuchoffice.org.

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5 Comments

  • Hey

    hey
    How about speaking the language of the siddur with your children and then maybe they will be inspired by its words

    It’s about time Loshon Hakodesh became a living language in our community, not just a language of ritual

  • A happy mother

    This kinnus should invite rabbi Mendel Duchman of Los Angeles to speak on this topic as he raised the bar in motivating our kids with his “Rebbe,s Diamond Davenes” jr minyan.
    Here in town the KINDERLACH can’t wait for shabbos to arrive so they can attend KOL yakov yehudah…….I speak about my four childen and dozens of others .

  • frustrated parent

    I wonder if the information provided by the Kinos will ever find a way to the classroom. My son attends a large, well know Yeshiva and I still have to see any change for the better.

  • :-)

    I thought it was horrific in camp that they encouraged us to shout davening. It was not necessary at all. With all the color war and bunk competition you would think we would have some idea what to do “during” davening–aside from shukeling.

    As a former camper and staff and pray that when my children go to camp they ease up on the shouting, and focus a bit on the meaning. Ask the average kid who shouts brochos in the morning–most have no idea what they are saying. So in camp, instead of the wasteful learning classes, maybe they should be taught davening..the schools aren’t teaching it.