Lead by Example, please!

I would like to encourage all of you to be the best parents you can to your precious children. Children learn by example. Please be the example your children need to succeed in this world. Teach your children not only with your loving words, but also by your actions. Teach them virtues that help them not only perform good acts, but give the best of themselves. Virtues like chastity, generosity, temperance, love, meekness, humility, and diligence will help you and your children overcome lust, greed, gluttony, envy, anger, pride and sloth. The virtue of charity teaches us to love God with everything we have, and our neighbor as ourselves. If we do these two things, then charity toward everyone, including those we don’t like, becomes second nature. Children need to be taught these virtues from the time they can walk and talk until they leave the home. We live in a society that makes teaching these virtues very difficult. As parents, we must choose wisely what our children watch on TV and at the movies, the books they read and the games they play. Children learn by example. What example are your children learning from?