Reply To: Going off the Derech

Imaof3-will do.

interjection-I hope his ‘friends’ wouldn’t do that, but I guess I can’t be sure. I so much appreciate your perspective on this, and never really thought about what you said…that for a teenager to believe that his parents care about him, they can’t tell him how to live. So if we say anything, even as minor as “I can’t see your eyes, maybe you want to cut your bangs?” it would be proof that we don’t love him? When you say we need to accept him the way he is, the truth is we really have no choice. I’ll love him no matter what, but I really do wish he were learning (something!), and coming home at a reasonable hour. Does that mean we don’t accept him??