Reply To: Going off the Derech

Ravs Daughter-Thanks for your post. You are right, getting my husband to be on board is probably the biggest challenge. I think he can get past the fact that jeans are ‘only clothes’, but it’s still hard for him to believe that this isn’t just another one of my son’s manipulations to get what he wants from us. Truthfully, most of the kids Avi Fishoff worked with(that he describes in the manual) went through terrible emotional or physical/sexual abuse, or have terribly cold/distant relationships with their parents. I’m positive Twisted Parenting would help them. But up until about 3 months ago, we had a great relationship with our son, with affection and constant communication. Even though he did go through some teasing in school, and had a critical RY, it seems a far cry from the abusive situations Avi describes.

Do you know Mrs. Belsky’s first name? I would be interested to hear what she has to say.