Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them.
I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.
There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.
Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.
I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.