I have also been remiss for quite a while in sending you my sincere gratitude. My husband and I adopted a 9-year-old boy from Kazakhstan in January 2001 (he is now almost 12). He lived in an orphanage before we adopted him. I think people thought we were crazy -- "how could you ever expect him to feel/be/act Jewish? Won't he destroy the frumkeit of your family?" etc. Two years later he is learning the mishnayos and at about 3rd grade level in Hebrew. He is a proud Jew, always wears his kippah and tzitzit. His goal in life is to go to Israel and rebuild the beis hamikdash. He is an amazing boy, and everyone who knows him knows his destiny was to be a Jew. One thing that was very hard for him was that he was used to watching R-rated movies, listening to hard core rap, etc., and weaning him off that base sort of society stuff was very difficult. We are Ba'alei Tshuva as well, so we didn't know what to substitute music-wise. Once we learned about Shlock Rock, he was able to have "modern" or "popular" music that so greatly eased his withdrawal from what he was used to, that we believe it was what made him loosen up to other Jewish learning and ways of life. It may sound like a stretch, but I can tell you it was definitely the turning point in his re-shaping his heart into a Jewish heart. Best of luck and a kosher Pesach,