Sri Sri Dayamata on Parenting

The best change for success in raising children is if the parents themselves set the right standards by their own example.  Children need to see that the results of those standards imposed on them are beneficial. When guidance  is given by example and with love and understanding, it will enhance the karmic good already present in the children from their past lives, and provide opportunity for further growth. 

To thus nurture inherent good tendencies and to plant seeds of new ones in young lives given into their care is the God - given duty of parents - a skilled profession, indeed !