Can you HOLD them UP? #parenting #raisingteens #jewishwisdom

talking on the phone with someone and my son, and he comes up to the to the pond and he sees that it was frozen. He's like, "You see this? It's like it froze. Do you think I could step on it?" I'm like, "It's like a foot deep." I'm like, "Knock yourself out. Like, what's going to happen if it cracks? You go through." But, he's too afraid. So, he touches it with his foot, touches it harder with his foot. He goes running and he grabs a rock and he throws a rock on it, hits it with a stick, finally he jumps and smashes down on it. Nothing. It's holding him. And he's like >> [music] >> he's blown away that this thing can hold him when a few months ago it was just water. Our kids are going to show up with all this defiance and all these sticks and stones and all of these things, but it's not because they hate us. It's not because they're angry at us. They're just not angry at anyone. They want to know, are you able to hold me up?