Your dreams vs. your kids' dreams

Expert advice by Rabbi Sherre Hirsch on how to balance one's personal goals and ambitions with your children's' dreams.
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Your dreams vs. your kids' dreams

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Here's my dirty little secret, I had big plans for my child when they put that eight pounder in my hands, I was like, "Here we come Harvard!" But I don't have those kids, and the truth is I would love for them to be the star kids. Basically, I have regular kids, and most of us do, so what you really want to do when you're educating your child is advocate for them, not what your dreams are for them, but their dreams for themselves so that they can really express them. That may not lead to Harvard, but it's going to lead to a self-actualized child, which is a heck of a lot better.

Expert advice by Rabbi Sherre Hirsch on how to balance one's personal goals and ambitions with your children's' dreams.

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Rabbi Sherre Hirsch

Rabbi & Relationship Expert

Rabbi Sherre Hirsch is a mother of four, author, speaker, TV personality, teacher and the spiritual life consultant for Canyon Ranch.  After eight years at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, she stepped out from behind the formal podium to share her message in all kinds of pulpits from The Today Show to a small baptist church in Alabama.  She published her first book, We Plan, God Laughs: What to Do When Life Hits You Over the Head in 2008; her second book will be published in early 2013. Rabbi Hirsch spends her free time practicing yoga, baking brownies and playing freeze dance with her husband and children.

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Here's my dirty little secret, I had big plans for my child when they put that eight pounder in my hands, I was like, "Here we come Harvard!" But I don't have those kids, and the truth is I would love for them to be the star kids. Basically, I have regular kids, and most of us do, so what you really want to do when you're educating your child is advocate for them, not what your dreams are for them, but their dreams for themselves so that they can really express them. That may not lead to Harvard, but it's going to lead to a self-actualized child, which is a heck of a lot better.