Why did Mishpacha stop their junior serial?

Silver Member Joined: Nov 16 2010 Posts: 538

Wondering why they stopped it suddenly? It sounded like an interesting serial to me.

Posted: Sat, Dec 04 2010, 7:14 pm Post subject:

But for kids? It was getting pretty intensely adult IMO. Kids should not be involved in the politics of getting into seminary. Sad

It is terrible that it happens, but do we need to write about the corruptness and the need for connections in a children's publication?!
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Platinum Member Joined: Oct 14 2009 Posts: 5867

Yeah I wasn't too fond of it either. Seemed like a REALLY weird theme for a kids' serial. Maybe if we were sticking to the feelings of the girls who were having a hard time getting in, but this was too involved. And the shrink? er....

BTW I think there's a little problem in translation - so many of these stories are written by Israelis and then printed for Americans; I am pretty sure that by "seminar" they mean what we call high school. So the kids in the story are about 12/13, making it a suitable topic for kids but still - to be addressed from the kids' point of view, not the adults'.

Platinum Member Joined: Aug 01 2005 Posts: 16879

I wasnt quite making heads of tails of teh story yet and wasnt emotionally invested in any of the characters, so I wont miss it. but I do wonder what happened.
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Posted: Sun, Dec 05 2010, 6:39 am Post subject:

The mindset of the story was so Israeli - both the high school part and the psychologist part (sounded like what an Israeli thinks goes on in America) - that I really couldn't get into the story anyhow. But I thought they had just forgotten to print this week's installment, not that it was cancelled.

Platinum Member Joined: Oct 14 2009 Posts: 5867

On a complete side note, I was astonished at what was written in the story about the psychologist kind of "setting up" the two clients, talking to one kid about another kid. How are kids who read this kind of stuff supposed to trust their confidentiality with the adults who are supposed to help them? Ugh.

Diamond Member Joined: Oct 26 2009 Posts: 2510

Posted: Sun, Dec 05 2010, 2:43 pm Post subject:

Agree with Seeker -- I found the psychologist part pretty disturbing. Already in the first, or was it second, chapter -- when she set up a girl to be sitting in the waiting room to make the client feel comfortable... felt very unrealistic and wrong. I don't think that 10 year old girls need to be reading such a serial.

Posted: Sun, Dec 05 2010, 5:37 pm Post subject:

Agreed. That was really unethical.

Posted: Sun, Dec 05 2010, 5:37 pm Post subject:

Platinum Member Joined: Jun 30 2009 Posts: 8228

Israeli's don't go to psychologists? Confused

Posted: Sun, Dec 05 2010, 6:26 pm Post subject:

I mean a chareidi Israeli who never went to a psychologist and doesn't know anyone who did, or has no inkling of a therapist's code of ethics.

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Posted: Tue, Dec 07 2010, 10:12 am Post subject:

Found it! Thanks.

Executive Member Joined: Apr 09 2008 Posts: 400

I noticed the note saying that it was being discontinued, and I was wondering why...
The serial didn't make much sense either way, I was just thinking the previous week that it was time to stop reading it.

I'm kinda surprised-
I was sure that I was the only one following the serials in the junior section. Anyone else following the Africa story? I guess I'm not the only adult reading that stuff. Very Happy

Platinum Member Joined: Aug 01 2005 Posts: 16879

I love the africa story. I love Rhona Lewis. she had me googling luluwas and bubukas or wahtever that was! Very Happy

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Platinum Member Joined: Aug 01 2005 Posts: 16879

It's not Rhona Lewis? I could swear I thought so all along!!! I'm going back to check!!!

Diamond Member Joined: Oct 26 2009 Posts: 2510

lol.. it says it's written by Avigail Sharer.
but I do happen to love Rhona Lewis' writing. I wish we would see her name more in the family first.