Some of us might be more melancholy, some might be more cheerful, some more social. But character is definitely something we can build through good habits. It s very easy to fall into bad habits, but it takes a lot of effort to be generous or hard working all the time. You need to teach children to share, to put their toys away, to smile, to say please. Otherwise they d be habitually self-centered.
Parents are the primary moral educators of their children.
There is no question about that. Even if they are traveling a lot or both working outside of the home, they have the moral and civic responsibility. But schools take up a lot of children s time, and unfortunately some children spend more time with their teachers and their classmates than they do with their parents and siblings. School is also a little world unto itself. Kids can learn on the playground the rules of survival and cruelty, or they can learn how to play fair and have fun.