Raising a good child

If you want to raise a good child, you must first decide that goodness is more imporatant than:

Happiness
Success
Intelligence

What's not to agree with? I wanted my children to be intelligent, of course. More than that I wanted them to appreciate their minds and wish very hard to develop them. Sadly their father didn't see the point; he had his hobbies and his laptop and he while he ignored his kids his intellectual laziness set examples for them. It was easier for them to regard roller coasters as the highest plane of existence, just as their dad did. This may be wearing off; I certainly hope so.

They did not, however, go as low as my first husband did, and claim that "all that matters in this life is to enjoy it" by having a good time. Hooray for shallowness.

Success is nice, too. You can be good on your own personal level but there are people who are good on a very grand scale, and those people do a LOT of good. That's what success is for. But if you're Good on a small scale because your resources are small, you're still good. And God bless you.