The Perfect School

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.