Reply To: Going off the Derech

TheBearIsBack-I really think the problem is that we’re not insulated enough from outside influences, which are goyishe in nature or filled with tumah. For instance, when kids come home from school, they feel like they have nothing to do. If you don’t give them high tech games to play with, they’re bored. What ever happened to playing a good old game of Monopoly? Checkers? It seems so archaic, that my kids look at me as if I have 2 heads whenever I suggest it. And if you don’t give your kids the high tech stuff, they will either walk aroud the house aimlessly, or end up being tempted to find “fun” other places. This translates into making connections with kids who have the high tech stuff. And there you have the additional risk of kids being pulled into the internet world (which again, translates into exposure to the goyishe, secular, tumah-filled world)) that you were trying to protect them from.