DTH-XII-0044
“I'm raising kids who are starting to carry the values I've tried to live.”
There is no legacy more durable than a human being who carries your best forward into a world you won't see. You're building that, day by ordinary day, mostly through who you are when you think they aren't watching. They are. What you live becomes what they carry. Build it well; you're building people.
Your Practice
- Audit what you model versus what you preach. They'll carry the modeling.
- Name the two or three values you most want to outlast you. Live those loudly.
- Tell them the stories of why you believe what you believe. Values need roots.
- Trust the long game. You're not raising children; you're raising the adults they'll become.
The Architects
“He who dies and yet does not perish, has longevity.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 33 (James Legge translation, 1891)