Balance and Inoculating Children from the negatives of the outside world. Don't disagree on the negative influences of some of those activities, yet one of the main spiritual qualities both Baal Teshuva and Gerim possess compared to FFB is that they are already inoculated from the negative influences of the outside world (which is one of the reasons why Hashem holds such people in a higher regard). FFBs on the other hand (especially the children of BT and Gerim parents isolated from the outside world), short of being inoculated to some degree themselves when younger are more susceptible to the negative influences of the outside world when they do end up encountering it. Not trying to justify the negative activities and understand why a parent may not want their children to make the same mistakes they themselves have made, however not having a social equivalent of a pox party (see Inoculation Theory) so people are immunized from the negatives of the outside world would do children more harm than good down the line.
2. Anonymous
1/09/2014
Don't disagree on the negative influences of some of those activities, yet one of the main spiritual qualities both Baal Teshuva and Gerim possess compared to FFB is that they are already inoculated from the negative influences of the outside world (which is one of the reasons why Hashem holds such people in a higher regard). FFBs on the other hand (especially the children of BT and Gerim parents isolated from the outside world), short of being inoculated to some degree themselves when younger are more susceptible to the negative influences of the outside world when they do end up encountering it. Not trying to justify the negative activities and understand why a parent may not want their children to make the same mistakes they themselves have made, however not having a social equivalent of a pox party (see Inoculation Theory) so people are immunized from the negatives of the outside world would do children more harm than good down the line.
3. Janice
1/08/2014
Videos,TV etc. I agree wholeheartedly. It is a wrong premise to make any decision based on what "others" do; young or old. Especially in a morally declining nation. What "others" do today; is far cry from what "others" did 50 years ago. I know I am 64; and appalled; we need multitudes of Torah teachers round the world not more game players; more children with fathers activily training children how to live.
4. Janice
1/08/2014
I agree wholeheartedly. It is a wrong premise to make any decision based on what "others" do; young or old. Especially in a morally declining nation. What "others" do today; is far cry from what "others" did 50 years ago. I know I am 64; and appalled; we need multitudes of Torah teachers round the world not more game players; more children with fathers activily training children how to live.
1/09/2014
Balance and Inoculating Children from the negatives of the outside world. Don't disagree on the negative influences of some of those activities, yet one of the main spiritual qualities both Baal Teshuva and Gerim possess compared to FFB is that they are already inoculated from the negative influences of the outside world (which is one of the reasons why Hashem holds such people in a higher regard). FFBs on the other hand (especially the children of BT and Gerim parents isolated from the outside world), short of being inoculated to some degree themselves when younger are more susceptible to the negative influences of the outside world when they do end up encountering it. Not trying to justify the negative activities and understand why a parent may not want their children to make the same mistakes they themselves have made, however not having a social equivalent of a pox party (see Inoculation Theory) so people are immunized from the negatives of the outside world would do children more harm than good down the line.
1/09/2014
Don't disagree on the negative influences of some of those activities, yet one of the main spiritual qualities both Baal Teshuva and Gerim possess compared to FFB is that they are already inoculated from the negative influences of the outside world (which is one of the reasons why Hashem holds such people in a higher regard). FFBs on the other hand (especially the children of BT and Gerim parents isolated from the outside world), short of being inoculated to some degree themselves when younger are more susceptible to the negative influences of the outside world when they do end up encountering it. Not trying to justify the negative activities and understand why a parent may not want their children to make the same mistakes they themselves have made, however not having a social equivalent of a pox party (see Inoculation Theory) so people are immunized from the negatives of the outside world would do children more harm than good down the line.
1/08/2014
Videos,TV etc. I agree wholeheartedly. It is a wrong premise to make any decision based on what "others" do; young or old. Especially in a morally declining nation. What "others" do today; is far cry from what "others" did 50 years ago. I know I am 64; and appalled; we need multitudes of Torah teachers round the world not more game players; more children with fathers activily training children how to live.
1/08/2014
I agree wholeheartedly. It is a wrong premise to make any decision based on what "others" do; young or old. Especially in a morally declining nation. What "others" do today; is far cry from what "others" did 50 years ago. I know I am 64; and appalled; we need multitudes of Torah teachers round the world not more game players; more children with fathers activily training children how to live.