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Let Go Of Expectations in Parenting

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You know what they used to do in they were very hospitable but they had one size bed fits all. You remember that story? What if you were too short for the bed? You remember what they did? What if you were too short? They would stretch your feet so you match the bed. What if you were too long? What would they do? They chop off your feet. Chop off your head. Rabi say forgive me. It seems to me sometimes that some of us feel that Judaism has one size bed. If you're too short, we'll stretch you. If you're too long, if you're too creative, you're too interesting, if you're too out of the box, will cut, we'll cut your creativity, we'll crush your personality, we'll destroy your ingenuity and individuality so you could fit the bed. But I ask you a question. Doesn't it say hundreds of times in Tanakh that God is not a model, nor does he have an image? So why do we insist that everyone has to look, think, and be the same? We don't have to limit our God and our Tyra in order to satisfy our own insecurities.