If you try to make your children good,
you will make them,
and yourself,
miserable.
Instead show them you believe in their natural goodness
and all will be blessed.
If you try to make them honor you
you will create instead
resentment and dishonesty.
Instead honor yourself and them
and all will be happy.
If you try to make them successful
you will perpetuate their misery
of endless desires.
Instead enjoy the simple life
and all will find contentment.
*You do not have to teach the outward niceties.
You have to recognize the inward realities.
You do not have to make things turn out well.
You have to recognize that all is well.
Note: I think this is a particular powerful entry. Children show unexpected behavior, they are full of surprises (pleasant or uncomfortable), with children come uncertainties. Personally dealing with uncertainties is one of the hardest lessons to learn, especially as a parent. And then again, isn't it for those unpredictable moments that make life so interesting?!
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