Reply To: Going off the Derech

zvei dinim-I’ve heard that too, I hope it’s true.

crisis of the week-it’s unlikely that he’s reading this bc although he speaks fluent English, he never really learned how to read English very well since we made aliyah.

thehoch-I agree with you 100%

Bostonborn-if the mods didn’t get a copy of the manual from here to help, I will email it to them, and you can get it from the mods.

Zeeskite- so what would be your advice regarding the following: How can I have any influence on my son at this point when he sleeps the whole day, and then wakes up angry and defiant, leaves the house and stays out all night. Comes home distant and disconnected in the morning, doesn’t want to talk, then goes to sleep for the whole day?