http://jewneric.com/a-bubble-of-a-world/2008/06/24/ A New Platform for the Jewish Voice Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:13:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://jewneric.com/a-bubble-of-a-world/2008/06/24/#comment-870 Nili Shrage Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:41:23 +0000 http://jewneric.com/a-bubble-of-a-world/2008/06/24/#comment-870 I agree with you Tiff. I think it becomes a problem when children have blinders on for everything until they are older. By not talking to our children about issues, it only makes them want to explore them more, and usually via a method that parents would not like even more. Not only that, we have children who run off to Yeshiva in Israel or college here in America, and never had a drink of alcohol until they arrive, or never discuss issues of sex (can I even say that on here with all the censoring out there??) and then once taken off the leash their parents had on them, dive head in first. There needs to be a way for parents to have open dialogue with their children so that the excitement of being independent does not cause a child to go experiment too much. Shielding children from what u don't want them to see or experience does not make them not see it, nor not experience it. I agree with you Tiff. I think it becomes a problem when children have blinders on for everything until they are older. By not talking to our children about issues, it only makes them want to explore them more, and usually via a method that parents would not like even more. Not only that, we have children who run off to Yeshiva in Israel or college here in America, and never had a drink of alcohol until they arrive, or never discuss issues of sex (can I even say that on here with all the censoring out there??) and then once taken off the leash their parents had on them, dive head in first. There needs to be a way for parents to have open dialogue with their children so that the excitement of being independent does not cause a child to go experiment too much. Shielding children from what u don’t want them to see or experience does not make them not see it, nor not experience it.

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