Teach them life's lesson
What is the most important thing we should teach our children?
Would it be the value of hard work? After all, a job is the reflection of the person who does the work.
Would it be knowledge, or better, the quest for knowledge? We can't possibly teach our children all there is to know in the world, but we can instill in them the desire to want to know.
Would it be compassion? From compassion, service to others and the community follows. Would it be tolerance and understanding? Could wars be forgotten if all the world developed a tolerance for the ideas and beliefs of others?
What is the most important thing to teach?
Would it be a love of self?
Would it be a love for family?
Would it be a love for others, or do all of these flow naturally from a love of the spiritual?
Should we tell them to, in some way, every day, make the world a little better than it was the day before?
Should we teach them to be polite, kind, generous, helpful? Are those the lessons we should stress?
There is no manual on how to raise children. Our children will learn about life, not from a book or a teacher or a preacher. They'll learn about life by watching us.
The greatest lesson we can give our children is ourselves.
They watch us and they learn. They watch our reaction to conflict and learn to either be compassionate or to hate. They watch us in the community and learn to either give or take. They watch us when we worship and when we don't. They watch us in our truths and in our lies.