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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Debate

So I am doing a mommy camp for both my daughters, seperatly. One is eight girls and the other is five. So I finished both my days for one and I have one day left to do for the other daughter. Well, other daughter really wants to go to the mall and play in the arcade. Waste of money, so not something I usually okay, but you know it was with her friends and basically we are just trying to entertain the girls. One of the moms called and said she wasn't comfortable with the mall, it's not a dati place, its not appropriate for the nine days and its not chinuchi(they don't learn anything of value)Okay, so maybe we do things different, we are from America, but I told her I would respect the culture and if she isn't comfortable with it we will find something else. But this opens a whole new bag of worms, here a lot of dati people don't do lot of things, so what do kids do. If you don't let them do anything they tend to rebel and try everything anyway, isn't it better to teach them how to set parameters, how to do things a proper way. Or maybe they have a point, the mall isn't appropriate; different wave of thought now how do we use it in the best way possible.

5 Comments:

  • define 'dati', and do you really want to keep track of 8 kids in an arcade!!! its all going to be' i need another shekel, i need more, more more more...' i think you should play dolls or dress-up.

    By Blogger docyaak, at 7:32 PM  

  • I agree with you, the more you restrict, the more they want to do it.

    By Blogger Just Shu, at 8:26 PM  

  • like i said on the phone... let them think the mall is a place to hang out... and pretty soon they'll be borrowing your car to just go chill at the mall... very dangerous :)

    By Blogger 2R, at 12:03 PM  

  • thats why israeli kids are more screwed up then american kids.

    and also, i agree with sarra- if you tell them the mall is for shopping, they'll go to mall and shop. if you tell them its for hanging out, theyll go to the mall to chill.
    but when they get older, they wont care what you say and theyll go to the mall and do wahtever they want.
    and then you will get calls from them, asking you to get them out of jail.

    good luck with that.

    By Blogger SHEV, at 6:05 PM  

  • maybe they will call you and have an officer talk to you to see if they are in the right place.

    By Blogger Rolling hills of green, at 9:06 AM  

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