I have been involved with the At-Risk community for many years. I have mentored and coached quite a number of kids. And some just simply became members of our family and still are. We have had 11 boys stay at our home over the years. One who we consider a son moved in and out and when he moved back in was already 21. My hubby told him, as he always had in the past that the front door gets locked at 12:00. We have a combination lock that they knew, but we also had a double bolt. He looked at my hubby with all his grown up bravado and said but “I’m 21” and my hubby said, “and these are MY rules. At 12:00 you are either on this side of the door or the other. You choose”.
So yes I have experience as well, and kids respect you for helping them when you really take a true interest in them and love them just for being a Jewish child.
mw13, as in the past. I am NOT going to argue with you for the sake of arguing. YOU ask your RAV what the meaning of massering is and if it ONLY applies to goyim. My parents raised me NOT to masser on my siblings, friends or anyone. That is the proper thing to do. In High School my principal punished the “snitch” for massering. I thank Hashem everyday for having had such wonderful parents and for raising me the way they did. I wish everyone could have known them and learned from these heroes (survivors of the holocaust). Anyone who knew them certainly benefited from them.