Give your children unconditional love, a love that is not dependent on report cards, clean hands, or popularity. Give your children a sense of your whole-hearted acceptance, acceptance of their human frailties as well as their abilities and virtues. Give your children your permission to grow up to make their own lives independent of you. Give them a sense of truth. Make them aware of themselves as citizens of a universe in which there are many obstacles as well as fulfillment’s. Bestow upon your child the blessings of your faith. These are the laws of honoring your son. Out of these laws will be built the Declaration of Independence for the coming generation, a spiritual and emotional independence that, in turn, will make the world free, democratic, safe, creative.
-Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman
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