“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”
– Anne Frank
Children don’t come with a manual. They come, instead, with a perfect mind. A mind that doesn’t know hatred or prejudice of any kind. They know only love and a desire to bond with those around them. They are unable to delineate ethnic races, or sexual orientation. They know nothing of the controversial subjects circling the Internet and entertainment and news media. We teach them those things with our words, our attitudes, and our deeds.
As parents, we try very hard to teach them right from wrong and to be respectful of others. To maintain the dignity of others and to treat others as we, ourselves, want to be treated. In many cases we succeed but we also sometimes fail, and in the process of trying, we never really know the answer to the question “How’d I do?”
