B-Mitzvah Family Education: What Does It Mean to Become A Teen? 

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Lesson
  • Participants will understand the experience of becoming a b-mitzvah as becoming a teenager and becoming the parent of a teenager 
  • Participants will be able to articulate their family’s and community’s values around the b-mitzvah experience 
  • Parents and preteens will explore what they are excited about and nervous about in relation to the preteen’s b-mitzvah
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Topic
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Relationship Building
  • Parenting
  • Lifecycle
  • Spirituality
  • Jewish Tradition
  • Jewish Peoplehood
  • Intergenerational Learning
Grades
  • 6 - 7
Setting
  • Congregational Learning
  • Family Engagement
  • Teen Engagement

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