This year, 2009, on 14 Nissan, (April 8), marks the anniversary of Hashem's placing of the sun in its position in the heavens. We say a special blessing, called Birkas Hachamah, that we only get to say every 28 years. Here are basic halachos for this blessing taken from the book, "One in 28 years" by Rabbi Moshe Goldberger.
Jewish Parenting is not complete without understanding how to parent
our Jewish children according to the Torah. Our Sages understood that
the real chinuch of children is to train them so that they are
accustomed to doing the mitzvos set out by Hashem for the Jews. When is
the appropriate age for chinuch? Do boys and girls have different
obligations in mitzvos? Are Jewish adults allowed to ask a Jewish minor
child to perform a Shabbos melacha? Learn about it right here.