The other day at synagogue, my soon-to-be 8 year old daughter came to me and asked for help in getting some of the food from reception table.
I was chatting with my friends and said to her, “I think an almost 8 year old can get her own food from the table. Solve the problem.”
She walked away.
I’m sure the NFO would have handled it differently, but I believe that parenthood is about planned obsolescence.
Ephraim, with whom I was chatting, was supportive.
He said, (and I don’t think it’s his original quote, but it’s a good one and I heard it from him first):
“Our job is to help prepare them for the path, not prepare the path for them.”
Spot on.
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