We all want to send our kids to the perfect school. It has perfect teachers perfect students and a perfect curriculum that fits your child perfectly. If you’ve found it let us know! Meanwhile the rest of you should consider the following:
Perfection Can Be Boring
Perfection is enjoyable for a short while and then it gets boring. It’s challenge that keeps us hopping! We need a problem we can sink our teeth into.
Fortunately Hashem has made sure that we’ll never be in short supply of this kind of stimulus. He shows His trust in our ability even from a tender age to deal with life’s difficulties. Moreover He prompts our growth and development by sending just the right-sized problems for our current stage of emotional and spiritual maturity. Hence unfair teachers mean classmates too much or too little stimulation difficult languages to decipher — among other prompts — are scattered before children as they march back to school at this time of year.
It is up to parents to show their trust that their kids can negotiate whatever Hashem puts before them. It’s up to parents to show kids that problems aren’t the exception in life but rather the very “stuff” that life is made up of. Instead of rushing to clear away every difficulty parents can help provide their children with a problem-solving skill set that will serve them well in life.
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