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Can Parents Really Love All Their Kids the Same?

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SoulWords—Rabbi Shais Taub

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What if I don't love all of my children equally? Thank you for your honesty and I'll be honest back. That's a major problem because what it means is you're not loving your children the way that the parent needs to love a child. A parent loves a child with unconditional love. When you love one child more than another, that's not parental love. What it really is is you're reacting to their personality. And of course, when it comes to people, different people get along with other people better. But you're not talking about finding a friend to go out for coffee with. But as a parent, a parent is supposed to have unconditional love, infinite love for every child. And the way to do that, if you want the hack, is to realize that you're not raising a child, you're raising a soul. An infinite, eternal, otherworldly being has come to this earthly plane to have an embodiment experience. That's who your child is. They are a soul. And when it comes to souls, all souls have infinite, inherent, unconditional value. I know it's difficult to think so abstractly and spiritually, but if you can try to look at your children not as their personality, which you may get along with better or worse, but rather as a soul, then you will be able to love your children properly the way that a parent needs to love a child. Then you'll love all of your children equally.