Day 81: A Lifesaving Bribe
A video recently emerged of an unborn child still in its mother's womb grimacing as its mother smoked a cigarette. By smoking, the mother is endangering the health and overall the life of her child.
Today's value was directed at parents trying to keep their childrens' health as close to 100% as possible. Rabbi Telushkin suggests making contracts with your children. His agreement would read something along the lines of if my child doesn't smoke/drink/do drugs by their 21st birthday, I'll be them $_____.
I'm actually not a fan of this method. I definitely see it as a method that would certainly work with some children, but in this case you have to trust that your children will be honest and come clean if they did in fact do something wrong.
There are other methods that might be more effective and I think it's important that as a parent (even though I'm not one) you should know your child well enough to know what will work best for them.
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