Sender Av: that sort of fits with what I said before, which is that many people say “Follow this path or you’re not a good Jew.”
Chayav inish: I wasn’t reading Artscroll books, I just want to clarify that. I had a few novels, but there was nothing inappropriate in them. I made sure of that before I read them – they were all books from an author my parents also enjoyed reading, and they gave me the ok to read them. I just wrote that to show the Rosh Yeshiva’s point of view on reading.
As I said, I think one of the biggest problems now is that the so-called “experts” on teens going OTD aren’t really experts. They never went through it, and they can’t relate. The best people to get the OTD teens back on are the ones who got back on themselves. They can relate to the mindsets of the teens, and have also figured out the answers to many of the questions they have.