Not a week goes by that we don’t hear of a child dying–just look at the Misaskim site. This past week was just horrendous –with the gas explosion, with the exterminating products, with the 15 year old bachur who went into cardiac arrest for no reason–week after week. Let’s ask ourselves in all honesty–what are we doing that is causing our children to be our kaporos? One answer is–STOP TALKING IN SHUL !!!!! look at sefarim that show how much damage we do to our children by talking in shul–by davening–by krias Hatorah–turn off the cell phones!!!! What did you do in the days before there were cell phones, for goodness sake!! Each one of us has to start to something small. No lashon hara for an hour–cell phones are just adding to it. I see people taking their children in baby carriages at 8:30 in the morning to day care and parents are on the phone crossing streets without looking. What happened to the days when you NEVER called someone before 9 in the morning unless it was an emergency. Give a dollar tzedakah bi’Sever Panim Yafos to someone. Make a bracha out loud so someone can answer Omein. Wash for Hamotzie, bentch right after so you don’t forget. AND most of all DON’T TALK IN SHUL–can’t it wait a little longer? Unless you’re a doctor, there is no reason to be on a cell phone. I see men standing outside various shuls/shteiblech with their talleisim AND tefillin on with cell phone in hand–what a boosha for the talis and tefillin. It’s very nice that they go outside to talk not to disturb their fellow daveners, but why do you need to be on the phone with your talis an tefilin on? PLEASE–we all have the power to stop making our children the karbonos.–Brooklyn Mommy, Bubby and daughter