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ד"סב
Dear Diary
By: Alice Harrosh
Dear Alice, taught to do so as children. We cook
the way we saw our mothers cook,
speak the way our parents did, and
I am doing really well with my parent our children similar to the
healthy eating, but I have one way we were parented. Sometimes
issue. Whenever I go back to my we aren’t even aware how deeply
parents’ house, whether for a our childhood is etched into us.
weekday visit or for a Shabbos
meal, I go off track and eat poorly.
I have been married and out of my This applies to our eating habits
childhood home for over 10 years! as well. If cake and kugel was part
Why does this happen and what of your Erev Shabbos routine as a
do you recommend I do about it? child, going to your parents’ house
will bring you right back to those
habits. The only way to break this
I am so glad you asked this pattern is to be prepared. When
question, as it is a common issue you are aware of how strong of a
that deserves attention. Our pull the old habits have, you are
habits from childhood are deeply more likely to succeed in breaking
ingrained. We wash negel vasser those habits because you will put
automatically because we were forth the necessary preparations
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