Read lots of books and never stop reading lots of books. Punching up is good, never punch down. Be compassionate but not to your own detriment. Think critically. As long as you're not hurting anyone, do what you want. Taking chances is good but make sure they're informed chances. Find things/careers/courses that you enjoy, rather than their potential for riches. Value listening over talking.
'Punching up' means its OK to question and protest/argue with those perceived to have more power than you - i.e. laws you don't agree with, overly powerful/shitty politicians etc. 'Punching down' is by contrast attacking people who might have less power than you in a particular situation i.e. you never report someone stealing baby food in a supermarket etc.
Showing how to cope with a loss. I don’t mean death i mean like losing in a game or failing in math. I never lost as a kid so didn’t develop how to cope with losing. So when i failed for the first time in university and i dropped out(Completed it later). but to this day i never attempt anything out of fear of losing. Im still trying hard to overcome it. So don’t let your kids win every time when playing board games or something.
Value yourself, just don't overdo it. Value others as equal to yourself.
Important because many of the ways people take advantage of each other rely on the individual not valuing themselves. Whether it's underpaid work or abusive relationships, people who have balanced self worth make terrible targets.
Other traps arise from valuing yourself too highly and treating others as less valuable. It pushes away kind and wise people, it justifies harming others for personal benefit.
Already good values here (empathy, solidarity), i would also add to love life/living. We will enter a harsh time and it will be important to remember why they are here and what they fight for.
Choosing the high road will lead to many things being unnecessarily harder in life, but you'll gain one great thing in return: you will not hate yourself.
Compassion, empathy, loving and respecting nature, and certain things like the absence of racism/sexism, etc. And we absolutely wanted them to be free to choose their own lives.
They are adults and i feel we succeeded.
When they were in puberty, they did some things that made me confident that those raging hormones might be hellish, but they would come out of it as decent grown ups. That made me feel less uncertain about being a parent.
One example: none of us kill insects; indoors they will be carefully catched in a cup and released outdoors.
Intelligence is not an inherited thing you just born with.. In the long run hard work studying beats an intelligent person who doesn't want to work hard..
Failing is not a big deal ..it's more important to try again, change plans if needed, but always try again
Music is beautiful and has so much more beyond pushed content from social networks.. I try to show my kid some jazz, blues and Brazilian music
And sure..that the government can't give us something without robbing someone else first..that there's no such a thing as free stuff