Reply To: Telling parents about lifestyle changes

I am going to side with Popa here, V’lav Mita’ameih. It is terrible parenting to explicitly state such a thing to your child. That does no one any good. That does not change the fact, however, that sometimes it has to be true. A Frum kid should know that if he forces his parents to choose between him and Frumkeit, they’ll choose Frumkeit. Frum parents won’t eat at his Treif house, for example. But there are ways to show that and ways that are just wrong.