Choices

5th in a series of parenting inspiration from the weekly Torah portion, by Yosef Yitzchok Hodakov

This week's Torah portion, Re'ei, opens with Moses' words: See, I set before you today a blessing and a curse. The blessing is associated with heeding the commandments of G-d, and the opposite, well, is the opposite.

In raising children, it is imperative that - from the earliest age - they learn that there is a right and wrong, good and evil. (My three year old sometimes doesn't understand that concept. "But I WAAAAAAAANT", he says).

Now, what is good for one person, may be bad for someone else. You wouldn't serve steak to a week-old baby, or baby formula to a teenager. You wouldn't force someone with 20/20 vision to wear strong glasses when driving, or admit yourself to surgery if you didn't need it.

Yet, in every instance, there is a right and wrong. Knowing there there is a choice is the first step to being able to make the right one.

Shabbat Shalom.

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