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Rabbi Pinchas Jung & Chaim Bin Nun
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The Street Vibe Our Daughters Live With
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now okay
so
this the title of this uh
session is
the street vibe our daughters are living
with
so i'm not as concerned about the street
vibe our daughters are living with
because we're living with it and our
sons are living with it as well
but i think it's it's it's it's how
the home vibe
about our sons and but specifically
daughters and we'll get into that
sure
is this better
okay so basically um the title is a
little misleading i think there's and i
know sometimes we think the
counteracting of the vibe on the street
at home or in the school
is um the way to go
and then we'll explore that so
unfortunately
one of the the challenges that are more
pronounced when it's a daughter going on
a journey is in the realm of sneeze
and
if we're going to stake our whole
masaira on
the inches of the skirt or some other
clothing you know i'm so sneezed i don't
think about women's snacks i just you
know think about what i have to do
um and it's not the belittle that sneers
sneeze is not about clothing we'll get
into that too but it's i think
we have to measure our daughter's smiles
before we measure their skirts and and
blouses and whatever other articles of
clothing they're wearing
and if we do that we'll be okay
um
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it's it's you know
how do we explain that sneeze issue and
this is not only about sneeze but sneeze
is is about
not being boisterous so if you have
somebody who's driving a a ferrari in
borough park that's the same valuation
it's near
in one respect or another
um
is the beginning when somebody thinks
they're not part of the community
because of what they dress
that that's when troubles begin but if
if
we show that you're more than what
you're wearing
then then we're already on the way of uh
winning the battle
so i just wanted to say that part it's
more again the vibe in the home
than than it is
sorry about that
than it is about what's going on in the
street now what's going on down the
street is is is is
is um
going on very fast and it's changing
and
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we have to create an atmosphere at home
that can combat what's going on on the
street in the sense that there is more
love
and more
serenity more calm in the home than
there is on the street
the street will burn itself out
eventually they'll be
that's where the competition is that's
where the conditional love is where if
you dress a certain way if you act a
certain way then you fit in
and if you don't you don't but at home
you're part of the home regardless
the stresses on
the happiness
and the stress is on who you are and not
what you wear or what you say or the way
you say it
so
we're not going to compete with the
street with the with the temptations and
with the goods and with the speed that's
going on out there but we can't provide
something the street can't and that's a
place called home
and again home that shouldn't be uh
again you know baseball is a game of
inches not the home and not uh not who
who our children are
so that that's that's how i wanted to uh
start off if if there are specific
questions
daughter related or not we could we
could start with that i prefer to hear
from you then to keep going okay i agree
that how a child is not the most
important thing in terms of how i feel
about you
but as soon as a child starts dressing
differently obviously they're going to
be judged by the community by their
schools they're they're kind of like
ostracizing themselves from belonging
which is part of what i think they want
to do
so that's where my battle of giving in
to it eventually i did give in because
it was a certain amount of fighting that
you can't i can't do but i feel like by
my daughter's choosing to dress
differently they're choosing to not be
they're choosing to optimize themselves
from the community from the school and
then they wonder why they feel snobbed
or why they don't feel like comfortable
in the community like but it was even
though i can love them as much as i do
despite how they dress
it's it still harms them because they're
making themselves different
right
and the question is so in other words
according to the guidance that i got
based on all the
what i've heard from all these type of
things that i did the right thing by not
making them at all about the clothes and
to show them that they have
unconditional love and that they show us
regardless of how you dress
but in the end of the day still harming
them
that they chose to
truly
not look different and not belong to the
community
okay so so
again
you're stuck between a rock and a hard
place
they would have had a different negative
thing about the community and and i i
primarily do deal on a mass scale with
the boys
and they
yeah but
but they don't
but that's not that's yeah again that
that could be what they blame the the
quote-unquote communities not
getting getting them or being part of
them but um
that started already before and this is
just a symptom that's not the cause of
it and and i i would not defend the
community if they say oh mrs such and
such looked at me different because i'm
wearing x y and z you say oh that you
know i see you for who you are that if
they did that that's not right you don't
have to justify
whoever it is because you just have to
be there for the child and their
their experience and let them share
their experience it's it's it's easily
debatable if the person is actually
interested in engaging in a debate and
usually sinis is not only about sneeze
or and and
and drugs are not really about drugs
either
it's all about pain and not fitting in
and being lost and being confused and i
think as parents we should treat
the um
you know the bullet and not the
you know not the ripped uh shirt that
the bull passed through so
that would be the exact metaphor it's
keep making them feel special at home
we're not going to control the world
we're not going to change the world in a
mass scale immediately we could change
it you know a day at a time
and again
you seem to understand the whole picture
i i don't think you should have regrets
is what you did because a child who
you're fighting with up to a certain
point depending what age the child is
they'll go with you and because they
don't have money and they don't have the
access and eventually and again i'm not
saying you should therefore give it to
them to prove something but
eventually that bowel will break and the
the floodgates open and the reason why
she'll be ostracized from the community
is because she has the police call to
her house for breaking things and being
violent and threatening people or
who have something less extreme
right
right and and again and again
from experience and from what i've heard
the the girls who are
all boys who really want to dress a
certain way
three seconds left out of the house
they change or they go to their friend's
house and change
don't tell him that i again it up when i
came here okay so yeah
yeah
so it's not about you know again but
so the the point would be again when
they complain about people saying things
about them and say that's not right i
hope
people can be as understanding as
as as you deserve them to be for you and
if we don't try to defend people against
them they don't take it that oh we're
trying to make them feel better they say
oh you want me to like the rabbi you
want me to like the neighbors you want
me to more than me you're understanding
them more than me so
that's a general rule to uh
yeah try to understand the child not the
community and and do what you can for
them and everybody else and then again
this is just
a general thing if you are comfortable
with your child and you will go with
them
as they are other people usually follow
suit the stronger willed person will win
so if you show them that acceptance
other people will follow you're the
greatest advocate for your child in that
sense as well
i just saw your name on the thing i
don't know
um who i am i am
um some people know me as donny's dad
that's donny
and um uh
so i
i am a therapist and i'm a father and i
went through a journey
thank you
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okay thank you thank you very much now i
can go home but um
but yeah that is that is
that is the greatest compliment but yes
so um you
know
i i work in out of baltimore but i see
people worldwide through zoom in other
ways and um
you know it's
it doesn't depend doesn't make a
difference if it's a boy or a girl but
it's a it's a relationship issues would
be the relationship with self with
spouses or with their children
so
that that's my background
any questions about
the topic
i can give you directions to the room
yes
yeah okay
okay um
i can i can continue going if
there aren't any other questions
which many of these children
end up getting hold of they're living on
the street they're living on tick tock
which is even like more than what's
really in the streets
well that's the vibe yes
in society is very much affected by that
even more than a kid would be in public
school without you know well yeah that's
how well yeah there is no street it's a
virtual street yes
right so again the the the it's it's
every case is different and every
situation is different the the the the
phones
are a
subject of great conflict and it's
becoming more and more mainstream and
the filters do not work
pretty much never work
the phone is a whole other thing like
did we let the phone in the house oh
that's each case is different it depends
where you're holding if your child just
get you know it depends because if they
don't have the in the house they
find a friend that does have yeah the
exposure is there this is not about this
we can have a question about that as
well but this is in in general
uh this is just the general that that
there is a lot of exposure and that
exposure is unhealthy and again the the
the
the the parents relationship is what is
going to counteract that balance they
need more
a settled place they need us to be a
better example and if we're just
we're not connected then all their
connections are going to come virtually
and that's not healthy
the statistics are rather grim when it
comes to that and and there are those
out there who do this the generational
studies who are
extremely
you know
on the side that technology is bringing
that about
um
unfortunately
from the looks in this room right now uh
and
in the shabbaton and in people that you
see uh people are on their phones all
the time and if we're as adults gonna do
that our kids are definitely going to do
that and we're not going to have a look
to stand on or a chair to sit on
and that's fine but again that's
something that we have to be aware of i
i literally had it last week i'm working
with a very volatile situation happens
to be a boy
the father mother and child are sitting
in my office and the father's on his
phone the whole time
so
and the complaint is we have to get him
off the phone
so
it's a problem and again we we
our children don't learn from what we
say
they actually
many times despise what we say when
they're in the conflict mode either when
they're younger or there's some
volatility going on they're learned by
what we do and how we act and even if
they don't
if they don't they don't necessarily
recognize that we don't recognize their
reaction to us we are teaching them by
example all the time you can't unlearn
what you
what you see so
that's our um
yeah do you have another microphone
tour anytime you have no microphone
no no fam
there's a second presenter
he's the of the presenter he's coming up
right here
this way the steps
the steps the steps here
um
please forgive me everybody we just
literally arrived
i understand that they'd like to
get me into the program because of
experience in ghana habonus not just in
schools but we had our own programs
we certainly worked with ronnie
greenwald zucchini
and we work with a lot of girls who are
drifted off
and found a different way in life we
haven't always been able to keep up with
them all
some of them have done nicely some of
them we simply do not know i would be
relieved if we can get questions from
either side of the mechitzer
because that will prompt me what to tell
you and what to say rather than
just speaking as they say in english in
the welterran without knowing what would
be of value to the present audience
so the best thing i do believe is if you
give me questions with hashem's help
hopefully i can share with you one or
two ideas which may be of value
yes
a child builds a wall around them
well i think the simple thing that might
penetrate that wall honestly
is a four-lettered word a nice
four-lettered word l-o-v-e
because let's face it a girl even more
than a boy needs it
wants it and even if she'll tell you she
doesn't
she does still want it
and if she feels that that is coming
over that can melt the barriers
i hope this is some help to you
how do you express it
i would re imagine it is anything
ranging from
the expression on your face
or
making them some kind of offer on their
terms which will talk to them
which will appeal to them and for the
moment obviously i think this goes
without saying
not to focus on what they're wearing or
the way they speak or anything of that
nature and not to make any demands and
simply
um
love for its own sake because that's
what they're craving for deep down even
if as i said even if they deny it
so um you might offer them to take them
somewhere you might offer them a gift
you might offer them just your time or
whatever it is you will know
the child that you're talking about who
is is your daughter or somebody else and
what it might be that will appeal to
them
um
or you speak to somebody else with
experience and they might recommend you
a few ideas
of which
overture would be the most appropriate
okay
yes please
let's say you feel like you've been
doing that you've been expressing love
you've been taking an interest
you've been buying what they want you've
been trying to accommodate their
requests
yeah verbally in texts and letters and
gifts
and
the they're just kind of rejecting you
and they're saying i
i don't want you
and like i'm i'm continuing and i
keep trying even though it's hurtful
and i feel like
you know should i be
on this path of just
love love love and keep getting rejected
reject your objective
or
is there something else i can do
because it's just not working i'm doing
anything and everything
and i feel like
i just want to get away from you
do you think
that there's anything any mistakes which
were probably innocent mistakes that
were done in the past which caused them
to keep that distance i think there were
mistakes
that
i think there was trauma that occurred
nothing with us per se
but i think she either blames us
or
you know in the sense that she feels
that we should have protected her
and she wasn't protected i mean
obviously
she was very young
oh so something went wrong through
another person
and she felt that you let her down
i'm not sure that that's the whole
problem but i feel like i've been trying
for a year
i mean anything and everything she wants
and i'm still being
like i'm the problem you know i just
don't want you i want to move away from
you
but she still lives at home or doesn't
she she
does not want her
she doesn't want to
but she's not done it
so she's not done it though and if she
says it but doesn't do it it possibly
means that deep deep down she doesn't
want out
i'm just thinking it's not mummish the
area where i was working because it
wasn't with my own children
and what we found with other people's
children the very fact that we
unconditionally
whether it took them out to eat
or whatever we did for them it did
register
now
here i would think
that it might be kadai sometimes to step
down a bit and sometimes to come back
again and try to offer them the best
that you can
of course patience is a very essential
ingredient over here
and um
i'm sure the matzah has taught you that
filler by the way
is also
no less an ingredient
that when mispal
that somehow
should return
if you feel
that there is a need to apologize for
something
or even to say you made a mistake moshe
rabbenu
is a medicine pasha shemini
where he said that anito isi
for aaron
limitly and he even added and now be
mepharson that to the whole mahna isro
what i'm saying is we shouldn't be
afraid if we think there's a place for
an apology to make it
because if anything it increases the
respect people have for us not the
reverse
so if you feel that going back
you might touch on something say this
may be hurtful but i would like to
actually make a statement to you which
may ease things a bit
because apologizing is not easy it's not
easy to forgive and it's not easy to
apologize but it can break
an ice wall
so
i hope what was said is some value i
can't guarantee it you know your own
situation
and uh besides trying to relate to her i
do feel that in all situations that we
have hashem is there for us and atasha
mayor to fill us kope
three branch from hears and doesn't
reject us the matter says in many places
every single filler and the minister
says even i think valero it is that even
if we aren't worthy not we think we
aren't we really aren't worthy even then
the revenge from hears that filler and
what is as precious as that filler of
parents and typically this evening leo
shabbos kodesh the
phyllis of the mothers so these are
moments when maybe we should be in for
happy surprises pleasant surprises
diabetes sell health
maybe another question from this side or
is it fair if i alternate
our children yes need boundaries and
structure as well i mean of course love
is important and accepting them
unconditionally but doesn't it also need
to be complemented with
balance
not just
would you like to just speak up a little
bit because that yeah so
with you know we always learn that in
life we need to
you know exude balance
so with the unconditional love right so
we also need to give
you know structure
instruction
so well i mean you know a bit about tp
right
structure but even is that the word you
intended forgive me because my hearing
is not perfect
um yeah structure and also boundaries
when they're ready for it but they might
not be this is this is a later stage
when they're ready for some structure
because half the problem with
dysfunctional kids and kids who've got
these struggles
is that they're not living with
boundaries they're not living with
structure that is the kind of life that
we live and we'd love them also to live
but um
because of the emotional situation
it's very hard to live with structure
see we are very conscious venezus man
when is shabbos when is davning when is
kiddish because we behave of living a
more regular life with a seder this is
very much what the torah trains us for
hashem but these kids have opted out
um
i'm not sure that we can until we really
feel they're ready for it and invite
them to also share that they know it all
they know it's all there it's like the
sneer struggle they know what length the
skirt should be they know what length
sleeves should be etc etc etc so they
are making a statement
why because deep down they're hurting
so we have to in a sense turn a blind
eye to that and see whether we can get
to the real problem
but i think it may be necessary you know
your situation it may be necessary to
shelve the structure and the seder for
the moment if your daughter's just not
ready for it
yes she is saying i want to do whatever
i want what i feel like it's always
about what i feel what i feel but you
know when you're 13 it's not you know
my actually
but at that point that age it's not like
as adults we
we start with our minds and it goes into
the heart right right but it might not
register with them
right should i go alternate i think you
wanted to say
something daughter and uh
we're living not in a year ago
so living in a city where
a lot of things are not very easily to
be attained like kosher cultures and all
that stuff so she has a lot of uh not so
good influences i would say
not so good what's that
influence influence influence of friends
who are not wearing sneezes
again she knows that one's supposed to
eat kosher she knows which kind of
friends you'd like to see her with she
knows she knows it all right right so
therefore the lecture is for sure
not going to succeed and could make it
worse
so
very largely it's the same answer
very large it's the same answer and the
acceptance does not mean that i'm
totally okay with what you're doing and
they know that as well they're smart
enough to know that and so that even if
you show the acceptance they understand
it's what you as a man who knows
sure
but it's also that
like the ibishda's relationship with us
the bain kahu bainkak ruyimbonim that
whether whether we are awesome
or not islam
is
and that's what we want to show them as
well that that part of it is
unconditional and that you're my
daughter your beloved daughter and
i have patience and i'm optimistic that
things will shape up with time i think
so yeah the obvious the obvious demands
which we're burning to say
it's not going to be the answer who was
it who said that what is insanity when
you've done something 999 times and it
failed and you do it the thousandth time
so obviously and the whole idea of tp
twisted parenting is that we're not
doing the conventional kind of parenting
we're not doing what everybody would
normally say one should do and we're
doing it quite a different way and this
has proven itself to be successful
it's proven itself to work
right i go to this side again yes
so you have a girl who's hurting
you take her to a therapist a therapist
helps right
and then it's just
and then you feel is the therapist
working more in the mensch aspect not
the yid aspect is that right right so
then but there comes to a point where
like you feel that the therapist
is not there
she's only there for the girls so
sometimes it seems like they're
putting divisions
instead of
trying to get the girl
back with the family you know what i'm
saying like it's all about the girl it's
not about if there's nothing about the
family when
as a
we know that really
the kids are happier if they're part of
their family they would be but this is
you see you've touched something very
general
and obviously i know no one here and
nobody's family but some families have
caused problems and sometimes although
the official policy that we hear at
these meetings always is don't blame
yourself
sometimes it could be that the girl is
having a very hard time in the family
and the therapist to win her confidence
has to devote herself at the beginning
at least to the girl and what her
struggles are
and listen to her complaints
also doesn't have children that age
she's been that child maybe who's been
in the whole you know but she has little
children so most girls don't want to go
to some 60 year old therapist that you
know they want to go to a 30 year old a
35 year old but the 35 year old will
also understand and so will the youngest
of therapists that the right place for a
child is their home and we did discover
that when we had to place a girl
elsewhere there's nothing like the real
home however good that home will be it's
not a complete answer it's at best a
partial answer
so
you see sometimes the therapist will not
be willing to talk to the parents
sometimes the child won't give her
permission to
sometimes maybe that the therapist could
feel that at this stage in the process
we have to be once again very patient we
can't take that step yet
we have to deal with what is hurting the
girl and we have to wait for the right
time to begin to easing her way back
home either partially or completely have
you seen the booklet i brought it with
me but i haven't even had a chance to
unpack or to see my room yet
there is a book with reports short
reports from parents was given out at
one of these um kashinavshi events
and it showed comments from parents who
bought hashem have seen samatha and you
see how they thank hashemisborough for
tiny tiny steps forward
and how about emma's
even a little thing
to them mama gave them a simba you
wouldn't imagine
because what was what it was like
beforehand was so was so grim
so um
yes the ideal is to come back and
embrace the family and to feel part of
it and to want to be there but it might
be a long process till we get there
right
would say over the yes
six seven months
um our daughter has had a lot of
exposure to
um
to media to
youtube and videos and all the tick tock
and all these other things
and uh you know beyond the scope of our
home
um and she's managing to have it in the
home
and today we've kind of said you know
we've given her what's happened or
something
but
this is
you know
decline in her
and her state of mind and her
separation from us
but so
the question is like at what point do
you say
i'm wondering if there's a point that i
would say okay
you can have snapchat you can have tick
tock in our house we're going to bother
you
versus versus just her continual
going out of the house to find it anyway
i'm not sure that i've quite um caught
the point you want to make i had some
thoughts but i'd like to answer you to
the point so can you can you put in a
nutshell then it could
i guess we've had a battle over a
certain technology
we've not allowed other things the
things we don't allow she finds a way to
get them outside yes she will she will
right so
what point do we i mean is there like a
tipping point where you would say
allow whatever she wants and and
at least it's in the home and
she's not running somewhere else to get
it i mean that's kind of like
so father asked me recently and we
agreed
that if she does it in his presence if
she does in his car with certain things
he has in the car which she's able to
access what she wants from it it's
clearly better than if it's totally
hefca but i wanted to give you a
different point here which is
real satisfaction
these kids are not going to find in the
things that they think they're craving
for
so we have to allow it to them only
because
we can't say no no no and we can't
make the yiddish kite or even the
mensler kite become a an unwelcome
burden
but it's not going to provide them with
the real feeling that i'm
a fully accomplished individual i've got
a way ahead of me in life i've got
potential for success etc etc it's more
that they've got to wake up to that
eventually themselves they've got to be
able to see through the transparency
of the superficial lifestyle of the
world around them and that would make
the turnaround i think so when you're
allowing them a bunch of things it's to
us as parents it should be only
temporary
until they recover
in the sense of seeing this is no big
deal it's not really doing it for me
it's not really making me happy it's not
making me content and it's not going to
make me into a successful person
does this is this a tool
allow it in the home
allowing them to experience it and
come to you as a realization
that it's not we'd like we'd we'd like
them to come to the realization but a
lecture is not going to do it
and um
forbidding things is not going to do it
um you better ask the real experts and
never pretended to be one of them but i
do think
that it's just part of a process
the real experts well the one person i
know the best who did call me originally
to show up again at this conference is
avi fishoff
and um he must have more experience than
anyone else
way out
then the next one definitely would be
rabbishaman
and
definitely worth if you can catch him
for a few moments definitely worth
speaking to him if he disagrees with
what i'm saying then take his word for
it because he's definitely got much more
experience
but just bihalal we
are aware as adults of the emptiness of
the world around us and it's part of a
search which is endless because they
don't know what they're really really
deep down looking for
to this crowd who's here now i can say
because the edition of shama will never
be content with all that trash
and it's got nothing to offer so
ultimately we hope and this has happened
many many times my daughter just told me
a story about that somebody was in
hollywood and so high up and so
successful everybody around him was busy
committing suicide and um well it's not
100 serious but there's a grain of truth
in it and eventually he found his way to
toyotamimo so that's our dream and
that's our hope eventually and as said
again and i think it's correct that we
have to be misparalleled together with
artist toddlers
and hope that
us that the young person will see
through this holiness and this emptiness
are we supposed to be finishing now is
it
no okay so you told me i just as i said
i came out of the parking lot so i i
only know this man of shabbos and
otherwise and i better change beyond
that i have no clue
so do i have another question on this
side on the right yes
would you try to make it quite audible
for me that i should be able to hear
clearly and also answer clearly
hopefully the seattle
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but i just want to deschamel another
layer of how to reconcile with sneeze or
the lack of it and even more than that
like
the choices
you're talking about the sneers and even
the dreams i don't know
even with the why
daughter son but like and they just
break like all those things that you
could never have believed like
you know it's not just a boyfriend it's
like really big decisions that they just
choose
so you're talking about sneers in dress
and in what you do right
right in their relationships
and really no right now obviously the
tava is very powerful
right
and again
sneers they know the rules
the concept probably not
but i wonder whether the kids that we're
talking about even understand or would
accept the concept because the concept
is based on the human being and
especially the yid is a person with so
much
and so much more to them than meets the
eye that we're doing an injustice to
ourselves if we cheapen ourselves by
dressing in that way but probably and
the mothers will be able to tell me the
girls that we're really thinking about
this afternoon are not ready to hear
that
so once again
for sure lecturing won't help and for
sure objecting to what we don't like
although it hurts us terribly will also
not help
what do we tell ourselves i'm sorry
we're telling ourselves i'll tell you
quite simply
sorry what was the message
how do we feel better the simple answer
is do i have a choice am i doing what
hashem wants if i do what i imagine will
it work no i'm so am i doing the right
thing answer is yes
and for that you have and i do not
pretend to be one of them but you have
the mum here this meeting which every
time there are more and more people in
attendance and therefore they come for
guidance from those who know just like
you ask ishala from arov from a poisson
and therefore
and as i've heard of these meetings over
and over and again that we should not
blame ourselves
and they are deeply hurting inside as
avi fischer wrote in one of his um
contraism it's not a healthy asov it is
a sick jakov so it's not a healthy
um it's not a healthy what we call a
blimala but it's a sick bulimia who's
not well not in the sense of physical
health in the sense of emotional and
spiritual and mental health so really
what we have to do is try to help them
in a way that works
and the experts know what does work and
avi has got a lot of success to his
credit
though others who try we said this over
and over at many of these meetings the
others who try the obvious way
it's not working
if it's not working then it's not what
hashem wants us to do
so sometimes what works best is patience
tolerance it's a nissan like any other
nissan something's gonna say
someone's got a nissan in
in the panos
nothing to do with this particular
parachute and this is a nissan
and that's why we respect the parents
who come here very deeply because
they're dealing with a nissaian and
they're willing to come and ask for
guidance
instead of pretending to be experts on
their own
so this is a great thing that when
somebody comes along for this purpose
and they're saying i want the guidance i
want the aces of bigger people that is
already a godless in a sense
so are we doing the right thing yes
showing up here is already doing the
right thing
is it not
showing up here putting the questions to
those who know i say i can only give you
from my own experience which was not in
the cases as extreme as what some people
are going through now but definitely we
did have girls coming to programs we had
a few
much more
absolutely we can't we you can you
cannot compete with the hori in that way
you cannot compete with it so that they
should abandon it and come to you and
embrace you i don't think that's going
to work
so that she knows that my mother loves
me she knows that the door is open
whenever i want to come she knows that
they never closed the door on me despite
the way i showed up she knows that the
shabbos table there's always a seat for
me and if you read that booklet i forgot
do you remember what it's called the
booklet i brought it with me actually
i'm sorry
yeah thank you hashem yeah how many on
their own
at their own pace in their own time came
back
they did come back
and that's the secret
and the truth is to put it in an article
just this week
in the end whether it's to do with
filler or shabbos or casseroles or
sneers it's got to come from them it
can't come from us because they know
that's where we're holding that's no
they know that's what we're about and
they're trying something else
so
if we handle it wisely with the guidance
of those who really know there is at
least a chance that that moment that
moment that we're waiting for that
moment of goo
of person goula will occur
but if we distance ourselves from them
by nagging them or putting pressure on
them or threatening them of course
we're only delaying or making that
moment impossible
okay
yes
well letting them to do what they want
is gonna affect the other kids
so that is a question that we've had
recurring again and again
i find this a very difficult one
and i know avi's answer
abby fisher feels that the other kids
say to themselves i'm not sick
i'm healthy and well i don't want this
stuff this is medication that you only
give to a sick person i don't want that
medication so i don't want that great
big tv screen in my room because i'm
healthy i'm a bearcat girl and i'm
carrying on life like any other so
he feels and i cannot um
i cannot argue with it he feels that the
chances are that the siblings will
reject it they won't want it
now has it ever happened i do not know
it maybe it has happened but al piroid
that's what he feels is the outcome
i don't want this treatment because i'm
not sick
and the parent can say with great
with great tact at the right moment with
shiata dismayed listen
she needs this hashem you don't need it
so there's no big deal in it for you if
you want to copy it you don't want it
you don't want a strong medication that
the doctor never prescribed for you
it can it's not going to do you any good
and it it might look attractive on the
outside it isn't
now will it will this work i cannot
guarantee you
but that that that is the approach that
i was told
that the one should take
i know these aren't aren't easy ones i
do know that yes
again it would be helpful
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does that answer will that answer be of
any effect
that one child that's going through his
thing and everyone else looks at that oh
never but in some family the younger
children look up to their older siblings
and they also want to do this and they
also want to do that
and it's
you
this this answer i'm giving you off the
cuff
it can but i'd like to give you an
answer of the cuff but i cannot
um confirm that this is going to work
and that is to say
this is the med again this is the
medication she's taking now i really
don't believe it's going to make you
happy
i'm not going to offer you an answer for
the sake of it
i'd rather say
for now for this present moment i do not
have an answer which would be good
enough so i have to be honest
well again the thing that i was told
always was to explain to the healthy
kids
you're fine do what you want you're
walking with crutches for you can walk
on two healthy legs why are you sitting
in a wheelchair you can go on your own
right
why do you need all these meds you're
fine
and explain to them
why am i tolerant why am i letting let's
say miriam
wear this miniskirt and
all of a sudden where what is my own
hassage of sneers answer is because she
is hurting deeply inside and for the
moment
that is what she thinks she needs and
that's what she feels is going to ease
her pain
it's a temporary measure
right
it's so the question is how best to
relate to the siblings
it's i'm not saying it's an easy one but
what's the messages i was getting when i
was more involved in this field was that
the siblings do not necessarily want it
now i hear about the domino effect i
guess
there could be such a situation
um a little bit might depend on how
strong the family is bihlal
in the yiddish kite in their simcha with
it in their satisfaction with it
and
the way the family is conducted
whether it is by lecturing or by example
there's so many different ingredients
that can make or break it okay
right now i don't know is anyone here to
tell me what time because i know there's
a shabbos coming so what time are we
meant to wrap up
it is friday isn't it yeah okay have a
relaxing shabbos and hopefully it can be
of help to you