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How to handle parenting disagreements #parenting #tips

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SoulWords—Rabbi Shais Taub

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It is incredibly important that we transmit values to our children. In fact, that's the whole purpose of parenting is to instill within our children a moral compass so that they will be able to choose right from wrong on their own. Obviously, that goes most smoothly when both parents have the same values, or at least similar enough values that it's easy to compromise. But, here's what I want to tell you. One of the most damaging things a child can grow up with is contradictory values, mixed messages. It is so confusing and so destabilizing. Then the child actually gets nothing but insecurity and confusion. And therefore, I would go as far as to say this, if you have to compromise your values in order to at least present to your child one consistent value system, that itself is one of the greatest values, the value of consistency and clarity.