"It’s the job of parents to make choices and we try to make the best choices because our children live with the consequences"
Following the discussion in Mishpacha last week about the “respect and adulation” we show to celebrities, I would like to contribute the following story.
When I was a high school student, we were privileged to have a well-known music artist perform in our school, an arrangement made by one of my female teachers who knew him personally. (I am leaving out the name of the performer because I do not have a way of confirming if he is comfortable with my sharing the story.)
After the show, I bought a CD from him. My teacher who knew him was standing nearby as I asked him if he would sign it. Coming from a background where autographed items from Broadway shows and baseball games were coveted souvenirs, I had no reason to think there was anything wrong with this, and I had gotten such autographs from other Jewish music stars in the past. But he politely shook his head no, with a slightly uncomfortable look on his face.
Seeing his hesitation, my teacher nodded and told him, “It’s okay, you can tell her why, she’ll understand.”
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