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Imagine you’re suddenly hit with the truth, in one instant, like a big boom. Then you spring it on your children without any preparation: “Do this! Don’t do that!” Boom!
That’s what happened when I became religious — my son was ten, my daughter, eight. They weren’t babies anymore and here I was springing this on them. It was hard for them.
Then suddenly I caught on: “Excuse me, Uri, didn’t Hashem wait for you until you turned forty? Hashem even gave Rabi Akiva until the age of forty. It must have been that, in Heaven, they knew you weren’t ripe for change. So what do you expect of your kids?”
That’s why I tell parents to learn to wait. Don’t worry where your child is holding. Sometimes the right thing to do is nothing. Just give him lots of love.
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