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There are a lot of different ways to raise kids, and while you can prepare yourself, a lot of the job, you just learn on the fly.
Early in his parenting career, Bernie Feldstein figured out how to keep his two kids, Vickie and Michael, happy and honest with something he called “Amnesty Day.” Once a year, Feldstein would give his kids the chance to confess to anything wrong that they did that year – the catch being that if they confessed on this precise day, they wouldn’t be punished. Feldstein says often, amnesty day was full of surprises.
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October 4, 2011
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BERNIE FELDSTEIN: Well I was reading somewhere about the value of confession in the Catholic Church, how good people feel after they confess. And I said, “We ought to have something like that. You walk around carrying guilt and you just get rid of it. No wonder those guys are so successful! They have this real formula you know in the Catholic Church: You confess, no matter what is it what you did. You're okay and you start over, you get a clean slate.
VICKIE FELDSTEIN: I would guess too that it drove you crazy to not know what happened to some things and your sneaking suspicion was that it was MIchael, but it was so unsettling to not really have an answer, ‘cause a lot of them were about edible things that disappeared... (laughs)
BERNIE FELDSTEIN: For me, I just thought it was a very effective thing to do.
We had, as you might recall, in our family an Amnesty Day, every once in a whil...
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