Are You Teaching Your Kid to Lie? #jewishthought #rabbiyaronreuven #torah

If you promise your kid that you're going to give him a gift and you fail to do so, you are training your child to lie. You tell your kid, "Listen, if you finish a Mishna today, I'm going to give you a present. Listen, if you get a good grade on this test, I'm going to give you a present." Right? I'm going to take you such and such place. I'm going to give YOU CHOCOLATE. YOU BETTER HAVE THAT something ready. Why? If you don't that kid is banking on it that you are going to give him that something that present whether he's doing it only for the present or not doesn't make a difference why the says even if a kid starts doing or an adult starts doing he doesn't want to but he doesn't anyway because you tell him to do it because you promise him money or you promise him reward or whatever it is still good why because eventually he'll do enough mitzvah he'll want to do You promise that young kid a present and he does what you say. He reads that Mishna. He's a good boy all day. He gets a good grade. And he comes home. He says, "Oh, Abba, I got it. I got a 90 on my test and I in I finished the Mishna today like you said. I clean my room." No. What's the present? Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'll get a few. Don't worry. I'll get I'll get a few like next week. I'll get a few next week. Oh, next week. All right. Okay, fine. All right.