Saturday, March 5, 2011
Setting Our Children Up For Disaster
Pick up any popular story book for Jewish children, or listen to any popular stories for Jewish children, and you will discover a consistent theme: If you do what is right, things will work out your way in the end. Children who absorb such a message are bound for disaster when they experience the harsh reality that even if they do what is right, things don't always work out their way. Why is this educational theme being perpetuated?
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Not every idea that's appropriate for adults is appropriate for kids. At a certain point, a young adult should learn that, in this world, no good deed goes unpunished. But not when they're kids.
ReplyDeleteSo don't teach them this subject at all instead of teaching them falsehoods. Teaching them that it will work out their way in the end is teaching them falsehood and setting them up for shock and devastation.
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