Sep 6, 2026 · 5 min · 4 segments
What happens when you ask children to rewrite the TenCommandments in their own words? Rabbi Shlomo Levin shares the hilarious and surprisingly profound answers from a Sunday school exercise - and…
Shlomo LevinHost
One little girl presented her list of commandments exactly as they appear in the Bible, with one change.
When I ask my grandchildren who their favourite teachers are at school, their answers are never about who is the best teacher or the one teaching that child's favourite subject.
The best teachers are the ones who treat their young pupils with kindness and don't belittle them or shame them.
Perhaps the problem for parents is that they harbour a secret hope that their children will be modelled on them.
And children, despite their genetic inheritance and parental example, insist on being their own persons, to the great frustration of their parents.
One little girl presented her list of commandments exactly as they appear in the Bible, with one change.
When I ask my grandchildren who their favourite teachers are at school, their answers are never about who is the best teacher or the one teaching that child's favourite subject.
The best teachers are the ones who treat their young pupils with kindness and don't belittle them or shame them.
Perhaps the problem for parents is that they harbour a secret hope that their children will be modelled on them.
And children, despite their genetic inheritance and parental example, insist on being their own persons, to the great frustration of their parents.
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